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Barbara K. Ads eatures Editor

yy/Vancouver” for the , what if I want to stay in (es, any veteran train to live in WN

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 —

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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.