Sorry, a “yes” vote in the transit referendum won’t make the 99 B-Line smell better

by Stephen Hui on March 11th, 2015 at 11:30 AM

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Here's some misinformation for the No TransLink Tax campaign to pounce on.

These posters, spotted at Vancouver Community College's Broadway campus, advance the clearly ludicrous claim that a "yes" win in the upcoming Pattullo Bridge referendum, better known as the transit plebiscite, will improve the stench of the jampacked 99 B-Line on a rainy morning.

The sad truth: students catching up on sleep while riding the "Free-Line" after a showerless all-nighter will still smell up the place, even if there is a bit more room to breathe.

Nice try, Make It Pass campaign.

Comments

11 Comments

Bathman

Mar 11, 2015 at 11:49am

"Sorry, a “yes” vote in the transit referendum won’t make the 99 B-Line smell better"

And a No vote will make sure it stinks forever.

LMAO

Mar 11, 2015 at 11:52am

The "yes" side is outspending the "no" side by some margin and their desperation has been showing for weeks. This is just another pathetic example of the propaganda machine that is behind the "yes" side. Sadly most of the propaganda intended to convince us that the folks who can't handle their current budget can handle more money is paid for by taxpayers.

Finbarr Saunders

Mar 11, 2015 at 12:40pm

Each day it gets more amusing watching all those with a vested interest cajole, beg, plead, threaten, promise, whine, bitch, condescend and outright lie, all in the hopes of getting the average man on the street to vote to give Translink more money.

It was doomed from the start of course, but what's so incredible is how clueless the YES campaigners seem to be. How else to you explain the month over month decline in YES voters and the increase in NO voters? I thought they hired the best campaigners (our) money can buy!?

The YES side started this campaign leading by a wide margin. Every time they open their mouths they drive more people away. They could have saved (our) $8million and just sat back and kept their mouths shut and they may have had a chance of winning.

Rico

Mar 11, 2015 at 12:57pm

Actually it will because they would be building the Broadway subway so people won't get passed up and left in the rain and the subway will have more capacity so people won't be packed in as tight.

@Rico

Mar 11, 2015 at 1:14pm

If the subway is built to Gregor's vision, the line will start from VCC, not Commercial.

Finbarr Saunders

Mar 11, 2015 at 1:29pm

@Rico

I ride the #9 and/or #99 daily on Broadway, and the fact is people are not passed by 99.9% of the time. Yes, for an hour or so in the morning one way and an hour or so the other way in the afternoon people may get passed by. But guess what - there's always another bus 5 minutes behind (often 2 or 3 minutes behind), so it's really no big deal.

Do people really honestly believe that Mayor Gregor is concerned in the least about people having to wait a few more minutes for a bus? Open your eyes people - this is about rezoning along the Broadway corridor, unleashing hundreds of millions of development dollars. This vote has NOTHING to do with transit as far as Vancouver city council is concerned and EVERYTHING to do with developing that street.

So if you want a future Vancouver that includes highrises along Broadway then by all means vote yes. But do it with your eyes open, not because of some ridiculous scare tactics and vague promises by a group of people with vested financial interests in the outcome.

@Finbarr Saunders

Mar 11, 2015 at 2:18pm

The subway is a top transportation priority for Vision Vancouver. A yes or no vote won't change that.

Finbarr Saunders

Mar 11, 2015 at 2:33pm

No question it's a top priority - for the mayor and his developer friends. It's certainly not a top priority for the citizens.

And the chances of it getting built go down substantially if it can't be bundled with a bunch of other stuff in order to distract people.

VCC student

Mar 11, 2015 at 2:58pm

I think it's a fun and intentionally cheeky attempt to grab students attention and talk about real issues like pass ups and overcrowding on buses. There's a lot more to the campaign than this one poster.