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[HB]

Oh and obviously I rarely look for spelling errors because my disability prevents me from seeing them. the disability is that i dont proof read very often and the spell check "corrects " words that I spell wrong and the corrections are usually some other word

[Bingo]

If it makes you feel better I don't know anyone brave or dumb enough to bike in them so in reality they are bus only.

 

So if cyclists are not going to use those lanes, which lane will they use?

 

Police will begin issuing $109 tickets next week to drivers who misuse bus-and-bike priority lanes on Douglas Street — a fine set to be enforceable 24 hours a day beginning in the spring.

http://www.timescolo...st-you-1.241050

 

[nagel]

So if cyclists are not going to use those lanes, which lane will they use?

On Douglas?  None.  If you want to bike safely north-south you take the Goose or Vancouver, or the Oak backroad route that ends at Bay (slow as heck though).

 

Blanshard is ok for some people but too scary for most.  Speeds are too high.

[aastra]

 

What you do not know is that I do not have small feminine fingers...

 

Come on. You're too modest.

[HB]

BC Transit

 

[VicHockeyFan]

The 24/7 rule is only southbound from Tolmie to hillside at first.

 

Where does this information com from?  Today's print media does not make it out this way.

[nagel]

Where does this information com from?  Today's print media does not make it out this way.

I got it straight from Transit but actually I posted incorrectly.  Will be 24/7 for all both directions from Tolmie to Hillside.  So Hillside-Herald/Fisgard, the parking stays for now.

 

In the short term this means Tolmie to Hillside in both directions.  Medium term, it would include the MOT portion northbound from Tolmie to the "Burnside bridge" on the TCH.  Beyond Uptown the lane will be a shoulder lane on the highway.  There's no room for this type of shoulder on that little bridge though so the lanes end there.  I don't know if they pick back up on the other side but it may be moot as further up the interchange includes some infra that only a bus would use anyways (at least westbound).  

 

No funding yet for anything southbound from this bridge to Tolmie, and I have no idea how this all fits with Battleford right there, unless the TCH is going to get really close to the Goose.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they focus on expanding the north section and then look at possibly switching the south of Hillside sections to 24/7.

[Bingo]

On Douglas?  None.  If you want to bike safely north-south you take the Goose or Vancouver, 

 

Nice to hear that you now think Vancouver is the preferred route over Cook Street. 

[Rob Randall]

I'm really tired of hearing about chumps like this. Can't he take up gardening instead? It's a boys' league with teenage refs f'chrissake.

B.C. Transit CEO Manuel Achadinha has been suspended for a year from coaching his son’s soccer team and attending any B.C. Soccer games after his anger at a 16-year-old referee escalated to physical contact.

Achadinha was coaching his son’s Lakehill Soccer Association under-14 team as they played against Saanich Fusion at Lochside Turf when he confronted the referee at the end of the game.

He wanted to know why the referee hadn’t called fouls against Fusion players and demonstrated the offending behaviour with his arm, making contact with the referee, said Vince Greco, president of the Vancouver Island Soccer League.

Achadinha became “too heated” during the conversation and “ended up crossing a line, obviously, when he touched the official,” Greco said.

http://vancouversun....h-with-teen-ref

[UrbanRail]

I am pretty sure he wouldnt have acted like that at a transit board meeting or in public. That has been a common occurrence at hockey games and other sports, where parents would go and physically or verbally attack a ref, another parent or another player.

[CriticalMass]

Once a bully always a bully.

I have heard from a soccer mum that her son wanted to quit soccer because the coach (MA) would yell and scream at the kids from the sidelines. It was just not fun for him.

I find the response from the ministry lame as well.

The CEO was not at work so it's not a problem.

The CEO represents bc transit 24/7 in all his actions.

[VicHockeyFan]

Once a bully always a bully.

I have heard from a soccer mum that her son wanted to quit soccer because the coach (MA) would yell and scream at the kids from the sidelines. It was just not fun for him.

I find the response from the ministry lame as well.

The CEO was not at work so it's not a problem.

The CEO represents bc transit 24/7 in all his actions.

 

Ya, like if he only beats his wife at home, and not at the office, that's OK.

[VicHockeyFan]

BCT ran on a Sunday service level on Friday.  So they abandoned their late-night service.    That seems odd, since late-night service is supposed to be for those that enjoy the nightlife or have to work in the nightlife spots.  All which were not affected by Friday being a holiday.

[VicHockeyFan]

When did the #15 stop being a 15X?

[Bingo]

When did the #15 stop being a 15X?

 

It's a long shot but I'm gonna say today at 6:54 am right here. 

[sdwright.vic]

When did the #15 stop being a 15X?

When it get downtown and becomes what used to be the Esquimalt side of the 6. The other side to UCIC is still an X.

[VicHockeyFan]

When it get downtown and becomes what used to be the Esquimalt side of the 6. The other side to UCIC is still an X.

 

It still makes limited stops on the UVic side, but they dropped the X on all stops and on the bus sign.  And on the online schedule.

[sdwright.vic]

See what happens when you go away?

[VicHockeyFan]

Perhaps it just wasn't necessary, since there was not a corresponding "non-X" like there is with say 27 and 28.  The #71 is an express, with very limited stops and schedule.

 

Maybe the X was also not jiving with their text-to-phone schedule system etc.

[Bingo]

We need a new thread "X-Files - the unsolved mysteries of transit routes"