Radio Bandcouver: Translink Skytrain Curfew

Translink has to lift its crippling 1:20am curfew on Weekdays and Saturdays (12:20 on Sundays and Holidays). It's just plain rediculous to us live music fans, especially the ones who live in the suburbs, to be having to watch the clock every time we're at a live music show, so we don't miss THE LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE! We can't affford to live in Vancouver in its overpriced, run down dives they call accomodations. We've been pushed out and are dead tired of being treated like third-class citizens just because we choose not to drive or pay more rent for run-down places in the eastside. We really don't see what all the fuss is about having the skytrain run "on the hour" after the curfew. The skytrain is run by computer----there's no driver. Having the skytrain run "on the hour" after the 1:20 curfew would help immensely. People wouldn't be stranded and give you an earful because you won't offer them alternate transportation to get back home. This would have positive economic spin-offs for the local economy. People would stay at the live music venues later. Taxi drivers would have more passengers later at night along the skytrain corridor. So enough about it cutting into the taxi drivers' bottom line. If Coast Mountain Buses & Translink would offer a dependable and efficient service to their paying customers, then it would remove at least one unessessary irritant from people's lives. Show some common sense and give the people a system that works for them and not just the precious few who don't even use it. It's time the people got on this full bore! It's not going to take care of itself! Contact Translink and City Hall and explain to them in a most clear and civilized manner how these changes would make for a more enjoyable experience and create positive spin-offs for the immediate community.

Contact Translink at: custrel@translink.bc.ca and 604-953-3040 8am-4pm weekdays Contact City Hall at: mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca