Transportation

[dmegametal#1]

here in Vancouver area..it seems like everything tends to go up in price...gas went up..ferry prices went up($65.00 car load of 4 from i believe $50.00) and the transit(buses)($2.25-$2.50) price is going up..that is why i bike to work and hardly take public transportation..

what is it like in your area???

[sorrowman]

The blessing of privatization of public transport here in Holland....that's what's happening here in Holland. Back in the day when public transportation was something overseen by local authorities it was affordable and in worked pretty much all the time.

Now there hasn't been a year the price of a trainticket/bustickets or whatever did not go up ever since public transportation was privatized. Service level did not improve all together (extremely crowded busses/trains like sardines in a tin e.a. get as many people in as few busses/trains as possible to cut costs, sometimes no train/bus at all, crappy equipment that break down all the time because of costs cuts on maintainance and the list goes on), and altho they're supposed to be checked by the authorities to see wether they deliver the level of service the agreed upon, they seem to get away with it all the time.

The good thing is I'm still a student, so I can travel for free on busses, trains and trams and such, but still, a place to sit, or a bus that shows up from time to time at all would still be nice.

Also, public transportation companies make up all kinds of lame excuses why they're lacking. How about the National Railway (they kept the name after privatization) complaining about wheels of trains becoming square during fall because of leaves on the tracks (some lame excuse about wheels skidding because of the leaves on the tracks) The excuses is one thing, but the thing that strikes me most is the fact that while it all was goverment property there were NEVER EVER complaints about trains being delayed or broken down because of leaves on the tracks. Why is that.....back in those days there was also fall, and leaves also fell on the tracks....makes me go WTF IS THAT....


In short.....same shit....different place

[King_Nothing]

Gas is pretty high here right now too, I think it is at $1.19/L right now, I am not too sure as I take the bus which is way more cost effective right now ($60/month pass)

[wolfie]

Petrol is about 96p a litre here in the UK. I don't know how much that is in Canada, but it's probably more than you pay.

[slayerdiabolus]

I saw Petrol for sale in a London Shell for 1.10pounds today. Thats mental! Its only 1.05Euro back home!

[Bob Garage]

93.9p a litre in Telford at the moment. that dropped from 94.9 yesterday.

[dmegametal#1]

gas is 1.16L..and the monthly bus pas has gone up $5.00 to..here is the news

TransLink approves fare hike proposal

SkyTrain
Photo by News1130 Wednesday, June 27 - 08:54:57 PM

Shane Bigham/Reshmi Nair
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - TransLink has voted in favour of a proposal to increase transit fares next year, despite protests from transit users including members of the Bus Riders Union. Only one member of the TransLink board voted against the increase, instead proposing a motion to cut the fare increase in half. However, no one would second the motion, and it was dropped.

Director Peter Ladner has asked TransLink staff to consider increasing the duration of the transit ticket from the current 90 minute limit. The 11 to 15% fare price increase will be put before the GVRD board in July. A one-zone fare goes up a quarter to $2.50, while a two-zone bus pass for one month will take almost $100 out of your budget by next January.

TransLink says it's all about improving service, but the Bus Riders Union says government surpluses should be used to fund transit expansion. They say fare hikes--even small ones--hurt, especially for poor people who depend on transit.

Our fares remain cheaper than other major Canadian cities. Cash fares in Toronto and Montreal are $2.75 with monthly passes going for 99.75 in Toronto, 65 dollars in Montreal. Last year's increase in Toronto was 25 cents per cash fare, and $1 per monthly pass. TransLink's last cash fare increase was by 25 cents in 2005. Toronto and Montreal's transit systems face deficits but TransLink says it can't run on one

[minus clover]

i dont have a car at the moment, so i bus everywhere. petrol prices here fluctuate almost every day, going from around $1.20/litre on tuesdays to $1.39/litre on fridays. the accc (the consumer watchdog here) is investigating this stupidity.

bus tickets are going up in the next couple of weeks by about a dollar per mulitrip (10 trips per ticket) to around $27. because i am unemployed right now, i get a discount and my multitrip is about $13.

i dont know whats going on with public transport in the rest of australia, but here its going downhill fast. the stupid state government is spending megabucks on a new tramline that most of us dont want... we'd prefer the money be spent on upgrading existing services and improving buses and trains. the federal government has its head so far up its arse because of the forthcoming federal election and wont spend money improving the roads... bah humbug!!!

[Zrak0z]

Here in Finland gas prices are over 1,30€/litre and in the city I live in, there's only one commercial local-bus company that has complete monopoly of the market so the prices are really high. They tend to raise the prices every year by 0.10€ and think that nobody will notice anything. Here we don't have any other public transportation so that's why I usually choose to go by bike.