Archive for the category "buses"

Security Dogs on Skytrain

December 8th, 2008 @ 6:22pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in buses, skytrain, transit, vancouver
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©Miss604 2006 When I was teenager growing up on Whalley my friends and I would walk down to Gateway or Surrey Central to head downtown and we’d be kind of scared of Broadway or Granville Stations – although it just ultimately proved how daring we were to venture to such places so far from home. [...]

WTS – What the Surrey #32: Bus Service

September 5th, 2008 @ 5:00am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in buses, surrey, transit, whatthesurrey
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I’ve written about the aggravation I have felt trying to catch a bus in Surrey, one that only comes every 45 minutes. I used to have to deal with that every day (during the work week) but somehow it seems even more annoying now that I know the difference in service between regions. When I [...]

Vancouver History: City Reflections, the Streetcar Ride of 1907

May 20th, 2008 @ 3:00am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in buses, history, transit, vancouver

It has been over a year since John and I received a preview copy of the 1907 trolley car footage of Vancouver on DVD. The film is the earliest footage of Vancouver and was shot with a hand-crank camera mounted on the front of a B.C. Electric Railway streetcar by William Harbeck of Seattle. Included [...]

Transit Pass Tax Credit

February 28th, 2007 @ 11:40pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in buses, skytrain, transit

Since moving downtown I haven’t had much of a commute to work. Being that I’m starting a fancy new job tomorrow, I had to buy a monthly bus pass that will enable me to get to and from work. My future employer is across the bridge, I will need to hop on a bus. I [...]

detours

November 19th, 2006 @ 7:01pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in buses, canucks, traffic

Georgia street was closed for most of today because of the Santa Claus Parade. I headed out to start my shift at work and arrived about 45 minutes later. Normally, it takes about 10 minutes to get to work if I take a bus and 20 if I walk. The #5 Robson bus is usually [...]

buses in the burbs

November 16th, 2006 @ 9:08am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in buses, rant, skytrain, transit, vancouver

Vancouverites complain about transit [mbv]. Bus drivers being rude, overcrowding, trolley buses falling off their overhead rails, and that ain’t the half of it. But when I think about taking the #5 (Robson) or #6 (Davie) downtown I think about how spoiled we are compared to every other transit-taker. Recently, the federal government has dumped [...]