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SFSS prepares for student vote on U-Pass renewal
November 13, 2017The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) is holding a referendum later this month for undergraduate students to vote on the renewal of their Universal Transit Pass (U-Pass) agreement, which is slated to expire in April 2018. The SFSS and other student societies in the province successfully negotiated to extend the current contract for student passes with local transit provider TransLink until the end of 2019. SFU undergraduate students will continue to pay $41 per month to the student society for their transit pass if they vote ‘yes’ to extend the expiry date of the U-Pass program and agree to continue…
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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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Students weigh in on whether TransLink’s changes are improving their commute
January 16, 2017By: Alex Smiciklas With the new semester in full swing, students are slowly getting back into the pace of teachers, textbooks, and, of course, transit. At the end of the fall semester, TransLink implemented changes across the lower mainland, many of…
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Quality and quantity: New B-Line to replace 135
November 28, 2016CORRECTION: In a previous version of this article, we stated that the 95 B-Line will have three-door boarding at all stops. Translink has informed The Peak that three-door boarding will only be available at SFU stops. We regret the error.…
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An Ode To TransLink
October 31, 2016TransLink You suck Angry bus drivers Get fucked I understand your job is arduous and hard But you are not Columbus, Magellan, Picard Why can’t the bus come on time? Why does a ticket cost such a pretty dime? The…
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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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The SkyTrain redemption
March 14, 2016[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ost in the wallows of two bombed midterms, I nearly miss the voice of a forty something Fijian-Canadian man beside me as he sparks a conversation on the Expo line. “It’s so weird,” he says in what begins as a…
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Yes, TransLink should add signage for invisible illnesses
March 14, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n Adam Van der Zwan’s recent article published in the Feb. 29 issue of The Peak, “TransLink Shouldn’t Add Signage for Invisible Illnesses,” he states that we can only “properly accommodate those with physical disabilities, rather than invisible ones.” This…
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