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: Perfection has not been achieved is this world.  When people jump in
: front of trains and mechanical breakdowns occur, delays enivitably
: result.

True.  I'm not faulting bc transit for the suisides.  But i can
fault them for the other numerous breakdowns.  I've been 
dealyed numerous times five or ten mintutes that cause me to
miss a connection.  (Causing me to wait an hour.  Or sometimes 
late at night 1.5 hours at surrey central)
Sometimes it has taken me up to 3 hours to get home.
I could have drived to Kamloops in that time!

: >And when 
: >they do break down there is no communication between sky train and
: >the bus services so no one knows what's going on.

: >Plus when the new skytrain extension came in they 
: >increased my time to get home by 10 minutes!  150 million dollars
: >to increase my time.  (The time they saved by the new extension they
: >gave to bus drivers for a longer breaks)

: I think the drivers would argue that point.


So.  They can rest all they want when they get back to surrey central.
They get paid $40,000-80,000.  I've worked longer
hours for a lot less.  Why do they think themselves any different?
BC transit is serving the public not the drivers.

: There are 6 bus lines running into UBC (a couple more in rush hour).
: Each line has an average of about 10 buses on it (the Broadway service
: has quite a few more).  So that's 60 drivers so far.  Now UBC is not
: Transit's only concern (it might be yours but there's a bigger picture
: here).  SFU (the competition) has 3 lines comprising about 20 drivers,
: so we're now at 80.  Of course not all people waiting for those
: missing buses are standing at the end of the line so we'll have to
: tell them as well...equal time, you know.  Then there's BCIT, those
: downtown workers......well, you get the picture.  In a perfect world
: everyone would get what they want...this world is not that place.

It wouldn't take much to phone 1 bus driver who had a sign that
he could post at the stop.  

Or how about a broadcast message to all bus drivers.
That wouldn't take long.