Summer bus service changes start today, June 25, 2012
June 25, 2012
Summer bus service changes start today, June 25, 2012
June 25, 2012
Hey hey: as we noted last week, summer bus service changes start today, June 25, 2012!
Make sure you know all about the details:
- Granville Mall weekend bus detours and Robson Street summer bus detours
- Check for your bus route in the full list of bus service changes across the region
If you have any questions about your particular trips, feel free to contact our Customer Information line at 604-953-3333.
And please do share this info with anyone who might be affected!
I noticed over the weekend that the blog has been optimized for viewing on iPhone. Thanks for that!
Yes! Indeed we did: glad you’re enjoying the new view :)
Hi, guys:
A couple of weeks ago, someone pointed out that there were unformatted (or temporarily formatted) public timetable PDFs up, in place of the usual nicely formatted PDFs.
It looks like they’re still up…was this an oversight? Or a budgetary matter?
It’s been explained that actual print timetables are only updated once a year, but even so, until this June, it’s always been the practice to format the PDF timetables each quarter the same way that they’re formatted in the print timetables.
For an example of an unformatted timetable that is still up today today, here’s the #9 (effective June 25th). You’ll notice that one row wraps over two pages, and there are blank pages as well:
http://www.translink.ca/~/media/Route_Files/81/timetables/tt009.ashx
For an example what they used to look like, here’s the previous version (from April) for the same route:
http://www.translink.ca/~/media/Route_Files/78/timetables/tt009.ashx
To continue from my last comment, for the #9 timetable, pages 10-13, 26-28, and 39-40 are blank, and pages 5-9 wrap over to pages 14-18, pages 22-25 to 29-32, and pages 35-38 to 41-44.
There was a spruced-up version posted for the #5, but it still looks like it was a stopgap solution:
http://www.translink.ca/~/media/Route_Files/81/timetables/tt005.ashx
I understand that there are only so many people available to work on so many more pressing things…and timetables are a non-revenue item in a day when everyone’s using dynamic bus time lookups and NextBus and whatnot…but it still doesn’t look that great.
Stefan, I passed your comment on to our customer information staff and they’re sorry for the delay, but they’re just running behind on the timetable formatting owing to a number of different projects underway right now (the June service changes, and an upgrade to our core trip planning and trip data software). So, just hang on! :)
I don’t seem to find the improvements in the coordinating of the schedules of the 002 and 022 outside of peak hours. I blogged about it here: http://wp.me/aiwe Perhaps one of the planners can explain what has been done in the last year on these routes?
Eric: passing that along to the planning team. Stay tuned!
Jhenifer:
Thanks. Good to know they’re on it, and after all, there are only so many hours in a day, with other things on the go. It just seemed so odd, especially then TransLink seems to be paying so much attention to its visual messaging.
Eric: here’s the response from planning.