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editorial@mrtimes.com
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times
Transportation
Fewer Express trains, more trips
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here will be no danputting LRT through the valcing in the streets, ley so we can start building but the announcearound transit. ment that the I digress. TransLink mayors’ council Over the past decade, our has endorsed a plan is a municipal council – with step forward. different degrees of enthusiThe fact that Burnaby asm – has pushed for a bus Mayor Derek Corrigan voted line that is rapid and direct against it really makes me to SkyTrain from our curby Gordy Robson want to support it. rent downtown core. From the press reports, Our mayor and council We are in a lottery it appears nobody is quite have not boasted about how with Langley… What yet sure how the plan will good this proposed deal is affect Maple Ridge. is currently happening for us. I can only chuckle with In reading the documents is our community sarcasm when some of the that have been produced so is losing more than mayors are giving credit to far, there is no guarantee of TransLink staff for coming improvement to our tran25 per cent of our up with a plan so quickly. service during the next community bus service. sit The irony is that, for more decade. than a decade, TransLink We are in a lottery with staff and planners have had a plan, and Langley to get a direct bus in 2016. they have adjusted that plan so many What is currently happening is our comtimes because of political influence. munity is losing more than 25 per cent of The problem was they were never our community bus service. allowed to plan. We have had no announcements from It is frustrating to see that one of the the mayor about that. proposals is Vancouver gets to spend I should mention the 10-year plan more than a third of the money available commits to adding another engine and for the next decade on a tunnel for an 10 more cars to the West Coast Express underground line down Broadway to UBC service that goes only one way in the morlands. ning and one way at night. A cynic might point out that the UBC It seems to me we would be better off to lands have had hundreds of millions of have three or four that go back and forth dollars of construction for residential all day long. development and have not contributed a We should all look forward to hearing nickel toward TransLink expansion. from our mayor and council as to why Maybe one of the masterminds of UBC we should support this plan. I understand development, like Bob Lee, would reach they are going to ask us to vote on it. down into those deep pockets and conGood luck to them. Just saying… tribute a billion dollars to the TransLink Gordy Robson’s column appears Tuesdays in the print and/or plan if he wants it to happen, and then online versions of The TIMES. Reactions can be emailed c/o editorial@mrtimes.com TransLink can spend that billion dollars
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