Tuesday July 22 2014
The
Leader
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SURREY BENEFITS FROM BUS SHUFFLING
▶ WHO’S ON FIRST? Team Canada’s Carey-Leigh Thomas is safe at first base as Quinn Dhaliwal of the White Rock Renegades catches the ball Saturday at the Scotiabank Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship at Softball City. Team Canada won the game 10-0. The tournament concluded last night (Monday) with Canada, Japan and the United States playing off for the championship (after The Leader’s press deadline). For updates, visit surreyleader. com
▶ ‘OPTIMIZATION’ HELPS TRANSLINK CARRY MORE RIDERS
JEFF NAGEL
The Surrey area has been the big beneficiary of TransLink’s strategy of shuffling bus service to carry more people with the transportation authority’s limited resources. Richmond and Maple Ridge, on the other hand, saw a net decrease in bus service between 2010 and 2013, according to a new TransLink report on bus system performance. It concludes TransLink is reaping gains from its ongoing service optimization initiative, which culls service hours from some routes or times where buses are underused and bolsters service in areas where overcrowded buses routinely pass up waiting passengers, or where more buses could attract new riders. Over the three-year period, the South of Fraser bus routes were allocated 11 per cent more service hours, while the North Shore got an extra 8.9 per cent. Richmond, however, was reduced by 3.9 per cent and Maple Ridge/ Pitt Meadows bus service was cut 2.3 per cent. continued on page 2
▶ “We’re pleased with the results. We’re trying to do the best we can with the resources we have.” JEFF BUSBY
BOAZ JOSEPH
WARDS IN CANDIDATES’ SIGHTS ▶ ALL OF SURREY’S MAYORAL HOPEFULS SUPPORT CHANGING THE CITY’S AT-LARGE ELECTORAL SYSTEM
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KEVIN DIAKIW
Surrey will either be getting a ward system or will be going to the polls to let citizens decide if they want one, according a Leader straw poll of current mayoral candidates. Civic ward systems can take many forms, but generally, it
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means one or two councillors would be elected in each community to represent that area of the city. The mayor would be elected at-large by voters across the city. Surrey had a ward system in place from the first elected
council in 1880 until 1957, when it was abolished by the province. That was the year that Ward 7 seceded, creating its own municipality called White Rock. continued on page 3
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