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When we stop hearing about old ladies being mugged on Skytrain stations or beaten to death or within an inch of their life, we can stop needing the transit cops.
Plus we don’t have enough regular RCMP/police to police the transit system.
But I don’t think the transit cops should have guns. Maybe guns with non-lethal rubber rounds only.
Does this also mean that directions for transit would be available in Google Maps as it already is for US cities (as described at headway)?
Transit in the Lower Mainland does have a history, so an official TransLink blogger can mine from the archives while also making service change announcements. This would be a supplement to The Buzzer and not a replacement for it. Interviews with frequent riders, managers and operators, and other transit employees would be interesting too. There are enough good photos of Vancouver transit on Flickr to pick out a best of the week. I’d listen to every podcast (which would come complete, of course, with transit sounds in the background like New York City Transit’s podcast), but wouldn’t expect anything more than a monthly episode, no longer than 10 minutes or so.
Richard Eriksson
