Higher fuel prices increase TransLink ridership
By wselent on May 4, 2006 - 6:49pm
From March to March, ridership on Lower Mainland public transit is up just over six percent[...]
I think many of the extra riders are cramming in during rush hour
rather than during off peak hours. The bus I take to/from work is
getting more full and "pass bys" where it doesn't stop to pick up
passengers because it's already at capacity are more frequent.
Doing the translink shuffle, "everyone please move to the back",
is not fun. It's unpleasant to be standing up in crowded conditions
and a struggle when trying to get off the bus.
At $1.20 a litre, that's $5.44.8 per gallon,
or about ten times as much as it was when
I first came to Vancouver from up north in 1972.
And the car-makers are still bragging about their
horsepower, and trying to brainwash us into buying
bigger & faster, when we really need cars that will
give us twice the mileage to offset ten times the
gas costs.....