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In article <4mmdm0$srf@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, leffler@physics.ubc.ca (Steve Leffler ) writes:
-> In <4mm8sr$rdi@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> holland@geop.ubc.ca (Stephen Holland) writes:
 
-> >The PCL service is not really a good alternative
-> >to BC Transit servec.  First, PCL is considerably more expensive.  
-> Second, it doesn't connect well to the sub-urban BC Transit routes.  
-> Third, you have to buy your ticket on the ferry and there are only a 
-> limited number of seats avaliable.  Fourth, PCL doesn't run on all the 
-> ferries (although that might have changed since I last tried to catch a 
-> PCL bus on a ferry).

->    You don't have to buy your ticket on the ferry.  You can get one at the
-> bus station downtown (in either Vancouver or Victoria), and get direct
-> service from downtown to downtown.  This is why there are so few seats 
-> left if you try to buy one on the ferry--most people have already bought 
-> theirs.  I agree with you about the cost, though.

Yes, but this doesn't help if the BC Transit bus leaves before the ferry
unloads, or if you've been driven to the terminal at one end and just
want to catch a bus at the other end.  PCL provides a good service if
you want to go from downtown to downtown, or if you have a lot of
luggage, or if you are simply too tired at the end of the week to bother
with city busses.  However, it does not provide very good service for
anyone else.

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