transit
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, which is when buses on the same route clump together in traffic. Many people may not have heard the term before, but most of us have experienced it through infrequent buses that are either early or late (I’m looking at you, 95 B-line). Mathematically, some degree of bus bunching is unavoidable, especially during high traffic times. However, the level it…
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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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World News Beats
March 2, 2018By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate TransLink to increase SkyTrain capacity TransLink has an announced an additional 80 cars will be added to its SkyTrain lines. 56 of these cars will be allocated to the Expo and Millenium Lines, while 24 will…
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Students vote overwhelmingly to keep U-Pass
November 24, 2017SFU undergraduate students voted overwhelmingly to keep their Universal Transit Pass (U-Pass) for another two years in a referendum this week that saw the largest voter turnout in recent history. The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) announced on November 24…
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Burnaby campus faces major parking congestion
October 2, 2017By: Gabrielle McLaren If you are finding it difficult to find a parking spot at the Simon Fraser University Burnaby campus, you are not alone. The university is experiencing increased congestion in its parking lots this semester and parking passes have…
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TransLink bus services expansion leaves out SFU
September 18, 2017By: Aaron Richardson The largest expansion of bus service in Metro Vancouver did not result in more service to Simon Fraser University. TransLink introduced an additional 105,000 hours of bus service across the region earlier this month. In addition to the…
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Transit horror stories
May 23, 2017By: Jessica Pickering, Grace Rose, Rebecca Zorg, Dan Hoy, Rebecca Chen, and Micaela Evans Grace and The Old Lady Who Touched Her Hair For some context, my hair is usually in braids or some sort of unique hairstyle. As a black…
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The official Peak Transit survival guide
October 3, 2016By: Vincent Justin Mitra, Peak Associate Where will you be when the world ends? Will you be in the library, cramming for that test? Will you be using your last Poké Ball to catch that Dratini in the AQ reflecting…
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SFU proposes “badass giant mech” as transit alternative
September 6, 2016An SFU committee tasked with determining an alternative mass transit option has forced the school to rethink its current bus strategy because of the cost of fuel, shitty Compass Card U-Passes, and unpredictability under inclement weather. After reviewing many proposals,…
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