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2013 brings hike in transit fares
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)

1/1/2013

Happy New Year!


Transit fares are going up.


Adult one and two-zone fares will be twenty five cents more,  and three zones will cost you an additional fifty cents.


For a monthly pass, one-zone is up ten dollars to 91 dollars, a two-zone pass costs 124 dollars, 14 dollars extra, and those needing a three zone pass will have to shell out 170 dollars, a 19 dollar increase.


Translink says the hikes are on account of inflation over the past five years.

HandyDart and West Coast Express will also cost more.

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  1. DavidSB posted on 01/01/2013 08:09 AM
    HOORAY!

    The amount I pay to subsidize fares is going down ;)
  2. UnemployedinBC posted on 01/01/2013 10:28 AM
    If transit is charging this much why do they also want to raise taxes? Not that I am against user pay but I had no idea fares were this high. I can run a 250cc motorcycle for $32 a month insurance and about $30 in fuel. Going from Ladner to Marine drive it would cost me $170. Do the math people invest in motorcycles what would you do with that 110 a month.
    1. DavidSB posted on 01/01/2013 11:27 AM
      @UnemployedinBC ....buy rain gear LOL!

      But seriously, I was interested in buying an ATV and using it on the road but they are illegal to use on the road. I wonder why that is? Are they not better for the environment? Plus they are safer to ride than bikes. You would think the government would let us use them.
    2. WilliamS_3961 posted on 01/01/2013 02:06 PM
      @UnemployedinBC I think the whole idea is to tax us out of our cars and make us totally dependant on transit. Then they car charge as much as they want. This is only the beginning.
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  3. mikes_0736 [deleted] posted on 01/01/2013 12:02 PM
    To David
    A car with heater and roof etc is much cheaper than a atv and ten times safer !
    1. DavidSB posted on 01/01/2013 11:22 PM
      @mikes_0736 [deleted] Mike, you can pick up a brand new ATV for less that 10K and for most of the year in Vancouver you don't need the heater if you have proper clothing. I would argue that it is much safer on ice and snow also and the cost of running it is pennies on the dollar compared to a car

      I will agree that it is safer from a collision perspective but if more people were to own them and run them on the roads then the risk in a collision would go down
  4. Ken280 posted on 01/01/2013 03:05 PM
    I presume that the minimum wage worker will have to move over for foreign workers because the company will do anything to get these workers in place instead of Canadians.Even pay for transit no doubt! "Hooray"! It is the year of an Election! Go NDP Go!
    1. UnemployedinBC posted on 01/02/2013 11:55 PM
      @Ken280 I feel most farm workers and Tim Hortons workers are taken to work in Vans.
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  5. SlimP_9860 posted on 01/01/2013 03:09 PM
    Thats about 12.7% increase. Why aren't these increases held to the same 2% increase limit that most employees have been held to for the last several years?
  6. Ron_26 posted on 01/01/2013 11:08 PM
    Did anyone seriously not hear this was coming?
    1. Ken280 posted on 01/02/2013 03:46 PM
      @Ron_26 Only liberal Insiders know for sure! what a whack for the people having a hard time,get out of your car you can afford transit,you people bitch about bike lanes and want them closed,I wonder about the ones who have neither bikes or cars or do you right wingers ever think of them as people.I guess this is why the TFW program is in place the employer probably houses them. I know you do not bat an eye over these kind of problems in BC.
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