Members of the public, welcome to the exciting new world of public transit!
With budgets squeezed by rising prices for gas, food, housing and — for that one commodity that makes inflation bearable — liquor, many of you, for the first time, will resort to take public transit while your car sits idle in your driveway. This reminds you that, in retrospect, it was probably a mistake you took that gap year after high school to travel the world so you could “find” yourself rather than getting an MBA and going to work for a hedge fund.
So, here you are, 50 kilometres away from your downtown office in a suburban cul-de-sac, in a municipality where the city planning department’s idea of public transit is driving in a convertible with the top down. Your only means of getting to work now is on that workhorse of our transit system, the commuter bus, which — when you passed it on the freeway while commuting in your late-model Land Rover with heated leather seats, 20-speaker sound system and drop-down TV screens to keep the kids narcotized on those long road trips — you once referred to as the Loser Cruiser.
So we at TransLink are here to help you navigate your new world, and below are several tips to help you on your way:
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