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#5701 Mike K.

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Posted 13 December 2017 - 12:30 PM

And just to append to Linear's post, that's the portion between Tolmie Road and (originally) Saanich Road, but the province extended the scope to the Burnside Road TCH bridge.


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#5702 nagel

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Posted 13 December 2017 - 12:34 PM

Also it’s northbound only although the TCH work allows for eventual expansion to southbound too.

#5703 Cats4Hire

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Posted 13 December 2017 - 12:52 PM

Not sure what this is about but it seems there's a new 82 route that will be going through Central Saanich? I can't find anything on the website https://twitter.com/...040304257368064



#5704 Mike K.

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Posted 13 December 2017 - 12:59 PM

Yes, it'll connect the Tsawout First Nation lands.


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#5705 vortoozo

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Posted 13 December 2017 - 06:04 PM

Ah, very good.

 

Here's the rest of the puzzle:

 

BC Transit Soft Costs | $70,000
Design Costs | $245,000
City "Eligible Costs" | $321,000
Construction Contingency Allowance* | $250,000

________________________________
Project Costs Subtotal | $3,912,000
Project Contingency (10%)** | $391,000
Total Budget Approval Request (with contingency) | $4,303,000

 

Why are there two amounts for contingency? $250,000 plus 10% of the total, another $391,000. Contingency on contingency?


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#5706 nagel

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Posted 13 December 2017 - 06:12 PM

CoV has been doing that too lately due to the high tender bids. Almost like a current market adjustment. Then the normal contingency goes on top.

#5707 LJ

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Posted 13 December 2017 - 07:20 PM

Also it’s northbound only although the TCH work allows for eventual expansion to southbound too.

I don't know what this is supposed to look like but IIRC it runs down the center of the roadway. If that is so, why do they need a northbound and southbound lane. Wouldn't you just use the lane southbound in the morning and then use it northbound in the evening?


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#5708 nagel

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Posted 13 December 2017 - 08:24 PM

I don't know what this is supposed to look like but IIRC it runs down the center of the roadway. If that is so, why do they need a northbound and southbound lane. Wouldn't you just use the lane southbound in the morning and then use it northbound in the evening?


YDRC. These are bus on shoulder lanes.

Basically there will be a wider painted median in the middle for the next couple of years until they get their shizt together to fund, design and construct the southbound lane.

#5709 Cats4Hire

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Posted 19 December 2017 - 12:59 PM

Buses will be free on New Years Eve after 6 PM

 

https://bctransit.co...d=1403648978087



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Posted 20 December 2017 - 02:29 PM

The new schedule previews are up. From here we can see all the changes to routes 2, 3, 7, 10, 19, 21, 30 and 31 (weirdly the 30 still hasn't had the preview map updated so it still has the bus going through James Bay and Saanich > Vernon > Ravine > Carey instead of directly up Carey).

 

We can also see the 22N will no longer exist and is instead replaced by the 21N which guessing by the timing points seems to turn right on Wilkinson from Interuraban than left on Burnside bypassing Interurban (despite the 22N basically being a 21 when leaving Camosun).

 

The 76 also returns and the new route is 82 which goes Sidney/Saanichton via Stautw. 

 

Other than 1 and 2 saying "South Oak Bay" instead of "Oak Bay" I don't see any other new things but I didn't check every single route.


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#5711 Mike K.

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Posted 20 December 2017 - 04:01 PM

Totally appreciate your updates, Cats!


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#5712 nagel

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Posted 21 December 2017 - 08:12 AM

A VV'ers tweet was featured in an article on the Elon Musk transit-hate blowback.

 

https://www.theguard...painful-twitter



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Posted 21 December 2017 - 08:17 AM

A VV'ers tweet was featured in an article on the Elon Musk transit-hate blowback.

 

https://www.theguard...painful-twitter

 

Musk is right, we only do public transit as that's where we are in evolution so far.  Once your personal pod can go on streets, in subway tunnels, across oceans on a platform ship and in the air on a plane platform, that's the way we'll prefer.  So your pod will be like a mini shipping container, to be whisked around as you see fit.


Edited by VicHockeyFan, 21 December 2017 - 08:20 AM.

<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#5714 nagel

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Posted 21 December 2017 - 08:38 AM

Musk is right, we only do public transit as that's where we are in evolution so far.  Once your personal pod can go on streets, in subway tunnels, across oceans on a platform ship and in the air on a plane platform, that's the way we'll prefer.  So your pod will be like a mini shipping container, to be whisked around as you see fit.

I don't agree.  I think there will be options to share those pods with others and many of us with not only want to do so for the cheaper rates but also for some conversation.  But more than that his comments were elitist over the top (serial killers, really?).



#5715 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 21 December 2017 - 08:40 AM

But you can "pimp up your pod", and leave items/groceries in it while you are at dinner etc.  You can't do that with fully-shared pods.


<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#5716 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 21 December 2017 - 08:41 AM

I don't agree.  I think there will be options to share those pods with others and many of us with not only want to do so for the cheaper rates but also for some conversation.  But more than that his comments were elitist over the top (serial killers, really?).

 

A fair portion of serial killers use public transit.

 

Ressler
et al
. (19
 
 
 
86) reported that 85% of organized sexual serial murderers
used a vehicle compared with 62% of disorganized sexual serial murderers, and that the
organized murderers offended farther from their home location than the disorganized
murderers. This finding suggests that serial murderers who use vehicles may exhibit
larger home-to-crime distances than those who walk.
 

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 21 December 2017 - 08:43 AM.

<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#5717 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 21 December 2017 - 08:45 AM

He murdered men he brought home from gay bars, malls and bus stopsJeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 young men from 1978 to 1991, only pausing his killing spree in the mid-1980s when his father forced him to join the Air Force.

 

http://hollywoodlife...killer-murders/


<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>

#5718 kxl

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Posted 21 December 2017 - 09:22 AM

I wasn’t expecting to read about serial killers in this thread...
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#5719 Nparker

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Posted 21 December 2017 - 09:25 AM

I wasn’t expecting to read about serial killers in this thread...

The subject topic is merely a suggestion.


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Posted 21 December 2017 - 12:28 PM

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