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Originally Posted by jeedee
Can't really blame Translink if maybe the city could get their shit together and plow/salt the roads this morning 
I don't think Translink has ever completely canceled their services before... |
Certainly the snow clearing effort for whatever reasons today was appalling; however, just like how the city crews and us here on RS tell people who are ill prepared to stay off the fucking roads, if Translink had busses stuck all night long on 41st, and many other hills and routes throughout the city, there was a clear indication they were not ready, and would have been better off just cancelling or ramping down many of their services to where they could efficiently manage the issues.
At some point you have to come to the realization, that just sending more busses out into the mess that was this morning is just gonna create more problem than good.
EDIT: For the record blue bus in west van does this in events such as today, they have a phone service as well as advisories on their websites where they simply cut routes like the British properties or dundarave if the roads get too shitty in areas like that.
It's a crappy call to have to make, because your inconveniencing a lot of people, but you have to understand that providing the shitty kind of service I saw from translink this morning, is completely unacceptable. Also factor in people's safety, a bus gets stuck with passengers on board, then they have to debark to get on another bus in the middle of an icy street, or whatever. Or a bus sliding out on a hill like the one I saw trying to come down the hill on Canada way at imperial, the thing was like a runaway train.