Recently here there has been a major overhaul as to how the public transit system works. For example, various city areas were normally designated a zone number where the more zones you cross the more money the ticket to travel would cost. However, this was recently scrapped where all buses would adopt a one zone
Recently there was a call for residents to vote on whether or not a tax should be implemented to allow the local transportation to grow. Basically, the mindset for many was that if you didn’t vote a “Yes” there would be no funds available to fix and grow the system. The results came in recently
Not too long ago here in BC there was a system delay with the public transit system called Translink and as a result it was announced that the whole system would be free for everyone to use. You could literally just hop on the bus or the rapid transit system and not pay a dime
While heading home today there was a person who was going around and asking people about their thoughts of a public transit vote that is taking place here soon. Essentially, the proposal is to implement a tax to help offset costs to improve the public transportation system. I immediately told the person my thought at
So there was news here today that the local transportation system here called Translink is essentially going to ask the people on how it should raise more money for the system. From what I read, the main options are to either increase taxes to the public in general or a carbon tax to people who
Apparently tomorrow anyone can ride the public transportation system called Translink here for free as a result of a recent malfunction of the system that caused riders to be stuck for hours. As you can imagine, it was a PR nightmare and so this was supposed to be a way to make up for it.