aggregated from: Beyond Robson

A recent and probably not coincidental spate of earthquakes around the world has our Oh Dearist hearts aflutter and Translink ready with volunteers holding bibs and shiny tins -- one of which I added a shiny loonie to. While at my parents' house in N...

topics: new-westminster, translink

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

It's been 11 days now since the closing of the Olympic lanes on Broadway and various other major thoroughfares in Vancouver, and I'm still in a state of mourning. As a cyclist and transit user, there was nothing better than whizzing down Broadway nar...

topics: olympics, translink

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Olympics are over, now start praying. We are, it seems, fighting to stay asleep. Wherein Allen Garr accidentally comes up with a great 90s instrumental post-rock album title. Could Vancouver and Seattle bid for World Cup? Holy shit people relax, it...

topics: gallery, olympics, premier, translink

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

An Olympic disaster? Complete rubbishWherein official sponsor of the 2010 Winter Games takes on those grumpy brits at The Guardian. If you're going to say the Vancouver Games cost $6-billion, have the decency to note $4-billion is for infrastructure...

topics: 2010-winter-games, tax, translink, vanoc

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

An Olympic disaster? Complete rubbishWherein official sponsor of the 2010 Winter Games takes on those grumpy brits at The Guardian. If you're going to say the Vancouver Games cost $6-billion, have the decency to note $4-billion is for infrastructure...

topics: 2010-winter-games, tax, taxes, translink, vanoc

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

Downtown Vancouver is being shut down one street at a time, the Lower Mainland is awash in green and teale O-advertising, it still refuses to snow at Cypress, and the VANOC/Translink team has pulled every single newspaper box from the Seabus termin...

topics: elected, translink, vanoc

aggregated from: Vancouverite

(Photo: Terry Murphy)Staged across the border north of Lynden, Washington, VANOC has amassed an army of Vancouver 2010 buses - complete with Quatchi markings (Mascots = trustworthy, right?) My Dad was traveling across the border and found the VANOC b...

topics: olympics, translink, vancouver-2010, vanoc

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Dear Mayor Robertson and Council,I am disgusted and dismayed by the recent news regarding the assault of Mr. Yao Wei Wu . These officers acted as thugs, and this is a heinous abuse of power. Even if this was the alleged person they were looking for, ...

topics: elected, investigation, mayor, translink

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Dear Translink, Do you think we could maybe NOT encourage families of flip flop wearing douchebags from using the Canada Line like it was a bath house? This was their ad running full page in most papers today. I will return the favor by riding you sa...

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

Remember how I said my brain turned to mush after all the fare weirdness we ll see during the Olympics and I couldn t sort through all the bus route changes and how to get to Whistler options, etc? Well, Miss 604 did the heavy lifting for us already ...

topics: downtown, olympics, vancouver-2010, whistler