November 21, 2011
Transit Pet Peeve Battle #3
The Transit Pet Peeve Battle has been a lot of fun so far. Battle #1 between Birdie Big Bags and Lounge Lizard resulted in an early exit for the…
November 17, 2011
Transit Pet Peeve Battle starts today!
Today is the big day. From now until November 28, 2011, the TransLink Facebook page (www.facebook.com/translink) will be transformed into a…
November 14, 2011
Transit reports on CTV Morning Live
CTV launches a brand-new morning program today called CTV Morning Live. It airs weekday mornings between 5:30 and 9 a.m. Reports on transit on CTV…
November 10, 2011
Remembrance Day 2011 holiday service and parade reroutes
Remembrance Day is tomorrow, Friday, November 11th. All transit will run on Sunday/holiday service; however, the West Coast Express and train buses…
November 8, 2011
The November 2011 Buzzer, Pet Peeve Battle and Ed Spence: Buzzer illustrator interview
Disco Dog and his illustrator Ed Spence Another month and another new Buzzer arrives on buses, SkyTrain, SeaBus and West Coast Express. This month is…
November 4, 2011
Reflecting on the Golden Ears Bridge
The Golden Ears Bridge has been open for nearly two and a half years now. The bridge is the first electronic toll bridge in Western Canada. It was…
November 3, 2011
Fall Bike to Work Week
The latest edition of Bike to Work Week is well on its way, and I finally skipped the bus and SkyTrain and onto my bike this morning to take part.
November 2, 2011
A short chat with Jarrett Walker about his new book
Friend of the blog and all around transportation guru Jarrett Walker has a new book coming out early December. It's called Human Transit: How Clearer…
October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween!
What's Halloween without pumpkins? It's that time of the year again for ghosts and goblins to take to the streets. Starting last Friday, I saw…
October 28, 2011
The results of the October “What motivates how you spend most of your time on transit?” poll
The second part of the pair of polls that we ran over this and last month looked at the motivation behind what people do while they're on transit.…
October 25, 2011
Growth south of the Fraser – Part 2
If you read the interview with Christina DeMarco of Metro Vancouver and looked at the maps addressing growth south of the Fraser River, you know that…
October 22, 2011
Links and tidbits for October 22, 2011
http://youtu.be/Byk8LcPovOQ What if you had your own personal pod to take you from your car you parked at the airport to the terminal? Heathrow…
October 19, 2011
A story by retired bus operator Angus McIntyre
http://youtu.be/a8qoEa6G_RY A local transit legend has been recently featured in one of the videos the Vancouver Park Board has commissioned as part…
October 17, 2011
The latest update to Next Bus is live
The updatd Next Bus map show bus stops as "T"s and allows you to search any bus stop by clicking onto it. You might have already noticed a…
October 14, 2011
Friday Fun Poll: What motivates how you spend most of your time on transit?
This is a follow up to the "How do you spend most of your time on transit?" poll conducted on the blog in September. Now that we know what Buzzer…