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[Cats4Hire]

I'm not sure if we've seen one before but there's a electric bus with the BC Transit deisgn https://twitter.com/...336883134246912

[Nparker]

I'm not sure if we've seen one before but there's an electric bus with the BC Transit design...

Well I've seen it...about 5 minutes ago as it drove past me on Pandora.

[Cats4Hire]

Looks like the NextRide thing will be slowly rolling out around BC and launching here the end of this year or early next year. https://bctransit.co...d=1403649662279

[malahatdrive]

Looks like the NextRide thing will be slowly rolling out around BC and launching here the end of this year or early next year. https://bctransit.co...d=1403649662279

Looks like Nanaimo is first starting next month.

[Linear Thinker]

Looks like CEO Manuel Achadinha has left BC Transit.

https://bctransit.co...about/executive

[VicHockeyFan]

Looks like CEO Manuel Achadinha has left BC Transit.

https://bctransit.co...about/executive

 

He was swiftly disappeared.

[Cats4Hire]

Not sure why but the 8 will be leaving 5 mins earlier towards Oak Bay from Tillicum Mall on Saturdays than the schedule says. They don't say what this means for the rest of the route either https://bctransit.co...d=1403649688292

[sdwright.vic]

^5 minutes later... and I guess every bus all day?

[vortoozo]

Looks like CEO Manuel Achadinha has left BC Transit.

https://bctransit.co...about/executive

 

Here's the news release: https://bctransit.co...d=1403649685229

[Cats4Hire]

Why are there now 2 alters for the 8's Saturday schedule being delayed that are just worded slightly differently? 

https://bctransit.co...d=1403649679134

https://bctransit.co...d=1403649688292

[AllseeingEye]

Here's the news release: https://bctransit.co...d=1403649685229

Pretty certain he was pushed rather that "left". Manny was not particularly beloved by many in that org.....

[Cats4Hire]

I really wish they'd separate the 75 from the 30/31 before July. Today I was on a 30/75 and all seats were already filled by Pandora (mostly with pretty obvious tourists that probably got on right at the start of the route) with people just trying to get to Carey/Vanalman left cramped and it only gets worse come June (especially on sunny days).

[VicHockeyFan]

Does transit like the cash fares from the 75? It seems the only good reason to serve Butchart. Few pass holders, lots of cash.

[Cats4Hire]

Does transit like the cash fares from the 75? It seems the only good reason to serve Butchart. Few pass holders, lots of cash.

I assume it gets pretty good ridership to Butchart. 75s seem pretty busy from early May to mid/late September.

[Nparker]

As I recall from my past history with the #75 route, it is never busier than during the May-September period mostly because it is the cheapest way for tourists to get to the Butchart Gardens. I imagine it must make $$$ for BC transit.

[Rob Randall]

Be thankful we have BC Transit and not Rome's bus service:

 

ATAC, the company for bus and rail transport in the city of Rome, has a national reputation for passengers who fail to buy tickets — and jump off as soon as ticket collectors, who are rarely spotted, come on board. Drivers, many of whom have little problem multitasking on their cellphones, are not asked to check tickets. The company’s employee absence rate is well beyond the national average.

 

 

Oh, and did I mention Rome's buses are exploding and burning to the ground?

[VicHockeyFan]

View Royal wants to clamp down on hospital workers using the park and ride lot.

I guess the ministry owns it and nobody really has bothered much with the hospital worker misuse.

[Cats4Hire]

It seems the Nanaimo tracker is up. I tried going to the URL listed (https://nextride.nan...om/Home/Desktop) and it seems pretty neat at least so far. Tells you the scheduled time and about how far behind it currently is as well as other buses that stop there and where they are. Could be useful if you're somewhere like Fort and trying to decide if you should get on the 11 here now or wait for the 15 that was supposed to be here a minute ago and is no where in sight. For some reason some buses show if it's low/medium(and I assume high) density while others don't which I guess could be nice for "do I want to rush out to have to stand all the way to Sooke or will the next be a doubledecker and have more room".

[Cats4Hire]

After playing around some more it seems I was wrong in relation to the time thing. First time is when the next bus should arrive based on where it currently is and traffic, where it should be, etc. The second is the bus after that. It also seems to give you notifications when routes are on detour even actually showing the detour route which will be very handy. 

[Bob Fugger]

Does anyone here remember (Cats4Hire, I’m looking in your direction) B.C. Transit last year making a big deal about changing the front and rear bus route indicators to read OFF instead of NOT IN SERVICE or NVC on the back? Something about better indicating the status of the bus for customer service reasons (or something vapid like that)?

It seems like they have quietly gone back to the previous model. I can’t find anything online anywhere and I could have sworn that I read about it in the Tiny Colonialist.