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2other lovely thing about
ransit. Have you noticed that
efore you can even insert your coins,
you have to select a method of payment?
r the weather _ Is there an option? No. We have to pay
was carrying cash. Why then, do we have to waste —

 
        
 
 
 

is is the aching that says, “bills oe
. followed . no change — Is that a
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So there you go, TransLink. It’s not
that people don't want to use public
transit, its thar you've made it so darned
inconvenient.

In 1998, a delegation of TransLink
members and concerned parties such as
New Westminsters former Mayor,
Helen Sparkes, went to Japan to study
tapid transit options. One would think
they would have come back with some
_useful practices to apply to our transit
_ system. They didn't. They overlooked
the obvious. In Japan, even a gaijin can
tell when the first and last trains depart,
how much a ticket costs, the length of
the journey, and what the name of the
id after each station or
ut that same gaijin back
what does she get? __
that’s for sure.