Anything groundbreaking going on over here at DS? (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/1.gif)
Hi greycat.
Not so much. It's been brutally quiet the last few weeks. I'm hoping it's 'spring' related, and everyone is just busy.
How goes it with you?
Things are good, new job, moving...crazy stuff, busy. I think people are just getting outside more.
Are you moving to the Island ?
No why? Just to another area in Vancouver.
well I'm in the process of moving.
Where you moving to Sportsdude? I hate packing.
Nanaimo.
I thought I had remembered you mentioning you were planning to move to the Island. (I don't don't know where I got that notion.....lol)
Nice, you have a job lined up or family out there?
nope just going into the unknown, going to school.
Even better, work, schmurk! I would love to go back to school, i might too. What are you taking?
geography I want to be an urban planner.
I'm a public mass transportation nerd, and big on sustainable living.
Wow, thats great, i hope you can do a better job that some of whats going on in our towns and cities!
Yeah, Translink needs some work.
Then again you also need the political will as well. Things like not extending Milenium to UBC or not making the Evergreen line Skytrain or even adding another car on skytrain to deal with over crowding, is discouraging.
Plus, I think they're should be trains going up to Whistler. I've never ridden on a train before so I've always been fascinated with Europe and its high speed trains and public transit too.
How many years of study is that? Every city has bad planning, especially when it comes to skytrains, LRTs, C-Trains....why is that?
cost cutting mostly.
The BBC interviewed Campbell and he had no answer to just adding 1 car to each train, making it 3 cars per train. Lines would virtually disappear if all they did was add a car to each train.
Like for instance the Evergreen Line to Coquitlam was orginally going to be skytrain. But since Translink didn't want to 'cannablize' West Coast Express riders, they decided to go with a much 'slower' form of transportation. lol
Then going half way to UBC is a joke. I can just see the mess that's going to cause. Kits folks wouldn't want it raised of course, they'd want it cut and cover like the Cambie residents. Therefore price would go up. But the governments fail to understand that it will be cheaper now, then it will be 20 years from now.
Then the Federal government has no national wide public transportation plan at all. Before Harper all of a sudden went 'green'. Baird and his group cancelled the 1 billion dollar LRT project for Ottawa. That the city hall and provincial government had approve. lol
Victoria needs an LRT. It would easily fix their transportation headaches.
Geography- 4 years
Then a Masters in Urban Planning.
Well, i know nothing about urban planning...all i know is that this city is impossibly ridiculous to get around in, but thats traffic related, bridge related, road related. And transit, well, you know all about that. I have two words: turning greens (as in lights)...look into it. lol
I think I just hit the jackpot, the main professor puts all his lectures on the net. lol
Bonus! Well good luck, sounds like you have quite the road ahead of you (no pun intended...well, maybe)!
well one of Campbell's response to not increasing in public transportation funding is that he says "Vancouverites what a massive transportation scale on par with a big city and that is just not reasonable due to population size." The problem with that logic is that the Lower Mainland acts like one giant city. So saying that dense public transportation would not work in an area like the Lower Mainland is laughable.
yup the prof puts everything on the net apparently. And its all in power point! sweet.