First post

Hello.

I've been riding the buses here in Vancouver since I was nine and now I'm 54, so that gives me about 45 years of experience of our transit system.

I've been a regular user of the system throughout the Greater Vancouver area, from Richmond (where I grew up in '60s and '70s) to Burnaby, North & West Vancouver, Surrey, Delta, Coquitlam and Vancouver (where I have lived and worked from the mid '70s to the present).

I have used the bus or Skytrain or Seabus to get to work, school, home, a bar, a meeting, a party or anything else you or I could think of to go to.

I like public transit or perhaps I should say I like the idea of public transit. It's got a lot of things going for it:

• environmentally friendly
• cheaper than owning a car
• I don't have to park it
• I can read my book or stare out the window or talk to my companions or whatever I don't need to pay much attention to where I'm going

I'm not always that pleased with the implementation of public transit:

• late or vanished buses
• crowded buses/skytrains/seabuses
• angry or rude bus drivers
• angry, rude or crazy passengers
• you can't always get there from here, least ways after 9:00 pm on a weekend
  
• Trip planning databases that give bizarre responses like "there is no service to that point on the system" when you have asked it for transfers and times to go from the West End to Commercial and Broadway by 4:00 pm on a Saturday

So I'm going to write about my adventures on the buses in Vancouver, if you have a story or an adventure you would like to share please do in the comments.