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If people were as reliable as Translink…

I would have become a homicidal maniac.

Today was an alright day. I woke up promptly at 9 am in the morning and after making and eating breakfast, checking my email, and various other morning things, I leave my house at 10:15 AM. Considering how I borrowed my dad’s laptop for the day to write a reference letter and it is raining out, I decided to take the bus to my Skytrain connection instead of doing my usual 20 minute walk to Commercial Skytrain Station.

Getting to my stop in a very short amount of time, I expected to see a bus there in a few minutes time. Ten minutes roll by with no bus in sight. Mind you, the bus route in question does have a bus come by once every 12 minutes at this time. Twenty minutes go by and I heard one of the old ladies at the stop say that she had been waiting at the stop for 35 minutes.

THIRTY FIVE?!?! What the hell is wrong with you? It’s a light shower on a bus route that’s predominantly on a straight line and it’s two to three buses behind schedule?

Thanks a lot Translink. Because of you, I end up walking to the Skytrain station and end up being late for my CMPT 307 class by at least 25 minutes and after that class, I am confused as hell as to what the prof was talking about.

Thanks so fucking much.

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One Response to “If people were as reliable as Translink…”

  • 1
    calyth
    January 22nd, 2007 12:49

    Mind you, Vancouverites cannot handle weather.
    Remember the big snow storm on a Wednesday that numerous people walked down the mountain? The day after that, ther was no snow, just what was remaining on the street, and the 97B was delayed, the Skytrain has difficulty with ice and the Westcoast Express has signal problem, all due to this phantom “cold weather problem”.
    So 35 min delay on a community bus isn’t all too bad. I was on Commerical station on that Thursday, I rediverted back to downtown, get on the WCE, only to find out that I should’ve got on one of those community shuttles that takes forever to go to Lougheed Mall because I was standing in the cold, waiting for a 97B to come. And the route that 97B has to get through before getting to where I was at (St. Johns and Williams) doesn’t really involve any steep hills!

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