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Snowmageddon brings transit in Vancouver to a halt
Buses were lined up along South Granville this morning.
Michelle Da Silva
Two hours. That's how long it took me to get into the office today, a commute that usually takes half an hour.
I stood waiting at Clark and Broadway headed westbound for almost 90 minutes. In that time, only about a half a dozen 99 B Lines came by; not a single one stopped for the three dozen frozen souls congregated at the stop. Two number 9 buses came by in that time, also stuffed to the gills and not accepting new passengers.
Finally I walked 10 minutes up the street in ankle-deep slush and a 9 Granville thankfully stopped for me. Forty minutes later, I'm finally in my office with warm, dry socks on my feet.
It would have been faster to walk.
How was your commute today, folks? Let us know in the comments below.
By the time I got to Cambie on the trusty little #9, the bus was half empty anyway!!
Why "Snowmageddon?" You take "snow" and wed it to "Armageddon" a biblical word meaning "the last battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgment." Snowmageddon is not cute, it's not clever, it's just lazy and ignorant.
Today, I didn't even bother trying to make it in.
You forget that ANY amount of snow equals armageddon in the city that hosted the Winter Olympics a mere three years ago. This goes especially for Translink and its laughably archaic bus network, which (chaotic and unreliable on a good day) effectively shuts down every year at even the slightest hint of snow and - god forbid! - ice. So, in the context of Vancouver, the headline and reality match up rather well, it would seem.
Oh there was a response but instead of clearing major roads like 4th and Broadway they were clearing bike routes like 10th. Mush brains the lot of them.