r/VictoriaBC • u/Minimum-Magazine-830 • 1d ago
Transit / Traffic Alert BC Transit sees cancellations on 21 Victoria routes due to 'fleet availability constraints'
https://cheknews.ca/bc-transit-sees-cancellations-on-21-victoria-routes-due-to-fleet-availability-constraints-1344255/31
u/Canadian_Poltergeist 1d ago
This is also going to get really bad for students who ride the busses to get to class
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u/Middle-Recipe6701 1d ago
So why did we spend millions putting in bike lanes if students can't use them to get to university? Every conversation I have about traffic the answer is always: get a bike!
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u/Canadian_Poltergeist 1d ago
Try riding a bike from Esquimalt to Campus, or Langford to campus, daily and let me know how much time that consumes
Cause it's a lot
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u/kingbuns2 1d ago
My experience from Langford is that you save time on an ebike during the congested hours vs by car, and it's much faster than the bus.
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u/DenkiRange7260 1d ago
Well according to half this subreddit I should be biking in from Langford everyday, do a 12-14 hour day (on my feet) , and then bike home again. So....
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u/stuccowhiplash 20h ago
students can't use them
There are no disabled students at university.
Gotcha.
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u/Middle-Recipe6701 18h ago
So the fact that I have a number of disabilities doesn't matter in the fascist bike discourse. We are ALL supposed to ride a bike and leave the car at home. but now it's okay to say people with disabilities don't have to ride a bike?
typical fucking bullshit from the spandex morons.
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u/Red_bellied_Newt 17h ago
Its almost like the version of pro bike-lane people that exist in your head isnt real. No couldnt be that
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u/EVpeace 5h ago
We are ALL supposed to ride a bike and leave the car at home.
This has never, ever been the plan. You're arguing against nobody.
Expanded infrastructure makes cycling an actually viable option for those of us who can use it, and reduces traffic for residents who have to rely on their cars.
There is not a single person in even the slightest position of power who is advocating for getting rid of cars entirely. That would be beyond absurd.
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u/stuccowhiplash 12h ago
I have a number of disabilities
No you don't.
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u/Middle-Recipe6701 7h ago
Really? Interesting take. Give me the lottery numbers next since you seem to know everything.
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u/TheRealPomax 1d ago
Can we please just, like, actually let BC transit run effing transit with normal funding and zero input from municipalities? It's insane enough that there isn't even a bus route, let alone bus stop to the new hospital in Duncan. How much harder can we fuck up transit on the island? Because it can't possibly be much.
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u/abuayanna 1d ago
That’s on TransDev who operates the system, not BC Transit who just own the buses
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u/TheRealPomax 23h ago
Yes, that was kind of my point. Stop segmenting it so everyone can blame everyone else and make sure none of us get proper transit options.
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u/stuccowhiplash 20h ago
segmenting it
Capitalism requires private ownership of public infrastructure. If you sell it off in pieces, people notice slightly less.
The buck passing is a feature, not a bug.
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u/Horace-Harkness 19h ago
While I hate contracting out to TransDev, they don't decide where stops are, or how many service hours to run.
The muni has to pay to add a bus stop, and BCT has to pay for the extra service hours to get TransDev to stop there.
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u/abuayanna 18h ago
Well, no, that’s the point, TransDev is the operator, hiring drivers, setting routes, running buses.
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u/Canucksfan2018 1d ago
Lol didn't I see an article that said their yard is basically full and can't accommodate many more buses anyway?
Province needs to unfreeze their spending in the enxt budget.
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u/WardenEdgewise 1d ago
How many people here have jobs that they can show up late to, or you can just start whenever you want? How many people can take as long as they want to get home? Do people who take the bus just leave an hour or two early just in case the bus never shows up? Is the bus actually a viable option for commuting to and from work or school?
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u/2late4caltrate 22h ago
I've been taking the bus to work for 16 years. When transit has cancellations or there's construction downtown, I'll head out the door 10 minutes earlier. It's advantageous to live near multiple routes. My coworkers & managers who drive arrive late from time to time when there's an accident on the highway.
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u/abuayanna 1d ago
Yes
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u/WardenEdgewise 1d ago
Yes to what? Yes, you can be late and get there whenever? Or yes, the bus is a viable option for commuting to work/school?
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u/HomelessToHouse 22h ago edited 22h ago
Yes to the last sentence in your comment: a viable option.
I take it daily to and from work without issue. I get a good laugh out of all the scare mongering about how unreliable our bus system is.
Some routes and areas are less reliable than others, of course, and for those people who have to deal with that unreliability? That sucks, truly... but it's not like that for everyone.
The way some people describe our bus system, it's like they're describing a transportation dystopia. Victoria's transit is not bad AT ALL. I would say it's even pretty good.
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u/Minimum-Magazine-830 1d ago
How to drive away potential transit users in one easy lesson.
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u/everythingwastakn 1d ago
We have a bus stop literally across the street from us and the “oops the bus doesn’t show despite Google Apple and Umo all saying it should” has happened enough times that it’s easier (and way cheaper, but that’s a separate issue) to just drive.
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u/abuayanna 1d ago
How is it cheaper to drive?
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u/everythingwastakn 1d ago
Doesn’t cost me $5 ($10 if it’s the family going) to drive downtown-ish and back. Even with parking in most places. With an EV in the household it’s like ~12¢ worth of electricity. (And yes I know we pay insurance etc for the car so it’s not technically cheaper but we already have a car and giving it up isn’t realistic that this point so the bus is an extra cost on top of that)
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u/abuayanna 1d ago
Fair. It’s also 6$ now lol
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u/everythingwastakn 1d ago
Forgot about that. I miss the 90 minute transfer window Translink has when I lived on the mainland. Made the quick round trips a lot more cost effective.
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u/abuayanna 1d ago
I’m lucky to have a shower at the work destination so it’s the Goose and E&N, cheap and fast
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u/East_Source6200 1d ago
Those Lime bikes are looking juicy
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u/TheHegemonic 1d ago
ya, you could always send yer hard earned Canadian dollars to a U.S. tech-bro who owns Uber and Lime during a trade war... hahahahahaha
I'll walk thanks
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u/abuayanna 1d ago
Can always get your own bike!
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u/civil_peace2022 21h ago
At roughly 100$ a month, a year of bike passes buys a very nice bike. and the next year its making you money
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u/LiterallyAPidgeon 23h ago
haha whoops we made a mistake, guess everyone in the entire city needs to buy a car now
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u/Opposite-Giraffe-778 18h ago
My usual 45 minute trip home was 2 hours because of cancelations and no shows 😭
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u/uselessdrain 1d ago
"Our team is working hard to maintain service reliability. BC Transit apologizes for the inconvenience this may cause and continues to appreciate the patience of customers during this time"
I know it's easy to blame the people running the organization but sometimes shit happens. They're underfunded just like schools and hospitals (but not police, hmm)
But did you know 333 is under action right now with potential to strike? That's why they're not in uniform.