Dear Editor
I am writing in regards to the idiot decision by TransLink to have the last evening Monday to Friday run of the C3 Quayside community shuttle bus to be 9 p.m. This started Monday, April 11. On Sundays, the last run will be 8 p.m.
I don’t know how anyone else feels about it, but speaking as a health-care worker who works evening shifts, this means that I will be forced to walk home in the dark, in the rain/snow/sleet, past the hookers, pimps, drug users and dealers. I don’t know how the mayor or members of city council would feel about their mothers/daughters/female friends having to do this very same thing.
I highly doubt that TransLink in their “consultations” included anyone from New Westminster in their decision to trash this bus route.My building’s Quayside Association representative was surprised to hear of this, apparently the association was not told of this decision either.
If I want to get home safely now, I will need to take a taxi...at $6 per night for four to five nights. This becomes $24 to $30 a week and therefore $96 to $120 per month. Currently, my concession compass card costs me $52/monthly. My compass card is, in effect, worthless. What are the odds that TransLink will be reimbursing me for my cab fare?
I don’t know what idiot in TransLink made this decision, but it should be looked at again by someone with an ounce of brains.
I’m sure that the local retailers, and I have spoken with the managers of the NW SkyTrain station Safeway, Landmark cinemas (where the movies don’t even finish until after 9 p.m.), Shoppers Drug Mart (open until 11 p.m.) and the major restaurants there will be thrilled with TransLink’s stupidity, considering that it will be affecting their bottom line.
Katherine Wishart, New Westminster
