🚀 go-pugleaf

ifisher@unixg.ubc.ca (Ian Fisher) wrote:

>johansen@portal.ca (George Johansen) wrote:
>Re: Broadway Express bus
>
>>On the way (unless there are significant changes as a result of a poor
>>choice at the ballot box).  The service will tentatively start on or about
>>Labor Day with artic's travelling Broadway from Lougheed Mall to
>>Granville.  And LRT is on track for implementation as well.
>
>BC Transit's 1996/97 Annual Service Plan says Lougheed Mall to UBC. If
>it stops at Granville there will be a UBC student revolt against BC
>Transit! Service will be 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and cover 10 hours
>on Saturdays. Frequencies should be 8-10 minutes peak, 10-15 minutes
>off peak.

That, of course, is scheduled service.  No guarantee that it will be
articulated equipment.
>
>BTW, just heard (3:10 p.m.) on the scanner that BCT has eight bus
>cancellations out of Oakridge Garage this afternoon due to a lack of
>drivers. There will likely be more cancellations later in the day when
>they run out of buses, as they usually do. One bus out of North Van
>was cancelled, not sure about the other garages.

This 'lack of manpower' is not an uncommon problem.  I expect that
we'll see posters advocating the simple solution 'Hire more drivers',
but before we get into that let me say there are a number of
mitigating factors involved here that many outside the public transit
industry are probably not aware of.