🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4mtddt$8rm@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, ifisher@unixg.ubc.ca (Ian Fisher)
wrote:

> >BC Transit *does* consult with passengers, and very extensively at that. 
> >What they have failed to do was to ask you specifically.
> 
> I don't recall BC Transit making any consultations with passengers on
> this bus purchase. The only riders they consult are the
> mobility-impaired riders who need lifts and low-floor buses. BCT also
> did not consult with riders when it bought the outrageously noisy and
> rough New Flyer lift-equipped buses in 1991. At least the 1992 was
> *slightly* quieter and smoother riding.

A correction here.  BC Transit _does_ survey the public.  Funny enough, a
day after I made the original post, I got a call from Mark Trend
Research.  Thinking it was an election poll, I agreed to spend the time to
do it.  It was a fairly extensive BC Transit poll.

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