transit
Carpool group emerges on Facebook in response to transit strike anxieties
November 18, 2019By: Jess Dela Cruz, News Writer On October 28, Translink workers under Unifor issued a 72-hour strike notice against Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC). With SFU being largely a commuter campus, students rely heavily on transit to get to and from campus. Shortly after the notice was released, Vice-President Finance & Administration Martin Pochurko sent a mass email to all SFU students regarding the strike. He wrote, “in the event of transit disruptions, operations at SFU will continue as usual [ . . . ] with that in mind, students, faculty, and staff who regularly rely on transit are encouraged…
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Along the 95 B-Line: Great hangouts and eateries for students
October 18, 2019By: Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate On the cold plateau of SFU Burnaby, where you can literally see snowy mountain ranges far into the distance, one can feel disconnected from the world by the end of the school day. But for…
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What grinds our gears: high sodium mega compilation
June 7, 2019Byline: Kitty Cheung, Kelly Chia, Jennifer Low, Gabrielle McLaren, Nicole Magas, Onosholema Ogoigbe, Winona Young The NASTY future of the SUB’s napping room People are gonna jerk off in the new napping room. There! I said it! That reality is…
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SFU launches free shuttle service around Burnaby campus
May 4, 2019By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer This summer semester, SFU is running a community shuttle going from Fraser International College (FIC) to Residences. With construction ongoing at SFU Burnaby, this shuttle is meant to make up for the resulting disruptions to…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Respect the people around you when you light up, even on 4/20
May 3, 2019By: Ruth Leavitt, SFU Student On 4/20, a group of teenagers lit up their weed on a SkyTrain car. It was late at night, so the car was full but not crowded. I had to flee to the next car…
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Commuter Woes: Transit’s effects on your health and wellbeing
January 25, 2019By: Alannah Wallace, Peak Associate Most SFU students make quite the journey to and from school every day. It comes as no surprise that we often hear our fellow peers complaining of the wear and tear this daily commute has on us. Sometimes,…
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SFU’s newest accredited sport: professional transiting
November 20, 2018Written by: Dhruv Taware Since its inception, SFU has been the undisputed best university to ever be located on top of Burnaby Mountain. One of the main reasons for this popularity is the university’s association with sports; the school is…
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What grinds our gears: Bus bunching
October 8, 2018Written by: Michelle Gomez, Staff Writer As university students, most of us spend a lot of time taking buses, and a lot of time waiting for them to arrive. Much of the wait time can be attributed to bus bunching,…
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TransLink should be able to keep offensive ads off their vehicles
September 25, 2018Written by: Michelle Gomez, Staff Writer Unquestionably, the ongoing debate on the morality and legality of abortions has been controversial throughout its history. But most recently, news of a B.C. court overturning TransLink’s decision to deny advertising space to an…
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Ambitious invention to blame for SFU’s extreme snowfall
April 4, 2018SFU president Andrew Petter seems to have his eyes turned upwards, as his gondola dream now unites with another secret passion project that, quite literally, aspires to reach the sky as its limit. While sleuthing around in the closed Highland…
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