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These are the most complained about bus lines in Metro Vancouver — and why they’re causing frustration

www.cbc.ca /newsinteractives/features/translink-complaints-2023

Every day, ironworker Genevieve Capilano goes to work building the latest, most-state-of-the-art piece of transit infrastructure in Metro Vancouver: the Broadway Subway.

And every day, she rides the busiest, most-complained-about transit route in Metro Vancouver: the 99 bus from Commercial Drive to the University of British Columbia.

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TransLink says it needs major funding to address capacity issues and overcrowding in particular — and an advocate says it’s up to transit riders to take their complaints beyond the authority and start asking governments to appropriately fund services.
Didn't it just announce user-fee hikes?
This public-private partnership needs to decide which one it is: either go entirely public so property tax and other levies can help fund it better and they get a more consistent and appropriate budget, or it needs to go private so we can shun it to death and then we get a fully public system like Latvia, Romania, and Malta.
User fees always suck and it always leads to under-funding while it disproportionately penalizes the lower and middle class. Tacking a private element on there means it gets new funding but also gets a board and c-levels who all need yachts.