KSA draws attention to TransLink’s bad buses
The Kwantlen Student Association recently held a ‘beat-the-bus’ competition to highlight the inefficiencies of the current transit system and how it impacts students trying to travel between campuses.
The Kwantlen Student Association recently held a ‘beat-the-bus’ competition to highlight the inefficiencies of the current transit system and how it impacts students trying to travel between campuses.
By Abby Wiseman [coordinating editor]
There’s a bike, a bus and a jogger all traveling from Surrey to Langley Kwantlen campuses. Which one would arrive first?
Well in modern times you would think the bus, but as the Kwantlen Student Association proved on Wednesday, September 1, the bike is superior.
The stunt was to make a point to TransLink that service between the Kwantlen Campuses is not up to up to snuff if they want students to use the proposed U-Pass.
In the end the bus rider Ashley Fehr arrived at Langley campus in 79 minutes; jogger David Palermo arrived in 66 minutes and cyclist John O’Brian arrived in 59 minutes.
“I know I’m not alone in the students who take longer to get to their campus than to get into Vancouver,” said Fehr who lives around Guildford and commutes to Surrey campus.
In order to make the U-Pass more desirable for students who don’t take public transit, the KSA is trying to turn it into a MultiPass that may partner with Gold’s Gym and Lady Bug Organics.
No confirmation on the cost of a MultiPass have been announced.
But if the referendum for the basic U-Pass goes ahead in October, each student will pay $30 a month whether they commute or not.
