🎧 Hazel Dell resident slams C-TRAN Vine bus project costs
Bob Zak pleads for area residents to vote out the current city of Vancouver and County Councils and get some sound thinking people in that put ‘we the taxpayers’ first
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Ever since the “Vine” made its appearance, the county has been “improving” the bus stops in Hazel Dell. Do you know “the Vine?” The double bus is labeled “the Vine.”
Bob Zak
For the longest time and “forever” into the future these bus stop improvements to accommodate the Vine have projects going all over Hazel Dell and north Vancouver causing traffic tie-ups and encouraging drivers to misbehave, like U turns in the middle of a main route like Highway 99.
When you see the Vine bus and look closely to count the riders. Are there any? I have counted up to eight at commute time. Eight between two buses. Why Vine buses when the ridership cannot even fill one bus?
I do support buses as the mass transit with the Interstate Bridge replacement project but NO light rail. Remember we are paying for this un-used space in the Vine. What a “mass transit screwup” and we pay for it. PLEASE vote out the current city and county councils and get some sound thinking people in that put “we the taxpayers” first.
Bob Zak
Vancouver/Hazel Dell
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