December 2009
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Vancouver's Canada Line Exceeding Ridership...
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The Canada Line has reached ridership goals three years ahead of schedule; the line has seen several days of 100,000+ riders. I’m not surprised by this news — downtown-to-airport rail service has been popular all over the US already. Minnesota’s Hiawatha line (Downtown - Mall of America - Airport) also beat ridership estimates, and...
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Adopt-A-Stop — a proposal for the Knight News... →
Your intrepid authors, one counti8 and one sillygwailo, present to you, our comrades in transit love, Adopt-a-Stop — our awesome idea for a web application to nurture community interaction around transit. Beyond just writing this blog, yo.
The basic gist? Here in Vancouver, every bus stop in the system has a 5 digit ID, and now we also have geographic information for each stop thanks to...
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SkyTrain buskers face billing by TransLink for... →
buskeridol:
Musicians and singers who are approved to perform inside the region’s SkyTrain stations were sent a letter in October from the region’s transit authority, informing them they could soon be asked to pay as much as $1,500 annually for a performance licence.
The letter states that Socan — the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada — is demanding royalties for songs...
