I'll be sure to give all the gory details about the circus that is getting to SFU from my house. Another item is about a pending vote on an increase to the price of the U-pass:
The U-Pass continues to be an incredible success at SFU. Thousands of students are leaving their cars at home and taking afford- able public transit to SFU and around the Lower Mainland. Your Student Society has negotiated a contract with Translink which will secure the lowest cost transit in the region into the next decade. We’ve also negotiated increased bus service that will be rolled out in stages over the coming years. On November 5 and 6, all SFU students will be able to vote on a proposed $2 per month fare increase to the U-Pass. If successful, the U-Pass will be secured for all SFU students until 2011 when another round of negotiations will take place. Be sure to come out and vote at the Surrey, Vancouver and Burnaby campuses on November 5 and 6. For a list of polling places, check www.sfss.ca/upass later in October. Want to know more? Email transit@sfss.ca.
Undoubtedly these two items are related. SFU's not going to stop growing; nor, I suspect, will the number of students using the U-pass. My question is, will the SFSS be able to hold Translink and whoever's giving them their money accountable for making sure the improvements actually happen and stick around, so that we won't get another RAV line sideswiping our services?
Transit and university students fascinates me, as a university student who's gotten very involved in transit issues. When you have that many smart (but not necessarily politically engaged) people putting up with a system that is clearly not working, can we leverage that collective frustration into something constructive? I look forward to seeing what comes out of the SFSS on this issue.