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Originally Posted by Mr.HappySilp
When it snows more people opt to use the tranist system. Now you have more ppl using public tansit and because of the shitty weather half of the buses and mass delays of skytrains will only cause more people waiting. I think it was a few years ago major snow (not really much snow). Skytrains was delays for more than 2hours and most of the buses wasn't operating yet my dad shitty 1990 toyota with all season have no issue.
You increase fare prices people are going to expect better service.
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So what would you suggest? The purchasing of snow tires for all of the 1462 busses in the fleet? Snowplows on the skytrains?
I agree that there are some flaws for sure. There are certainly some things which should be dealt with. But some problems are unavoidable unless we are willing to spend a disproportionately large amount of money to solve a relatively rarely-occurring problem. The last big snowstorm we had, IIRC, was accompanied by a windstorm. Many of the delays on the Skytrain were from ice or branches that had been blown or fallen on to the tracks; for the most part the Skytrains were running smoothly.
While the trolleybusses really don't do well on slippery hills, I think that's something that needs to be looked at in general; I think if we got rid of the trolley lines it would be beneficial in general, especially if we switched those busses to CNG which are lower cost to run and maintain than diesel, and would allow the maintenance costs to be less split between the various bus types.
This is the kind of thing we should be doing: looking at problems, analyzing the needs and resources we have, and making suggestions that improve overall efficiency to the system and to the problem at hand, rather than simply throwing money at things we don't like. It seems to me that many of the largest complaints people have about Translink is that it throws money down pits, yet people insist that "X problem be solved" without a thought for the costs.