To the editor:
Re: Letters, "Louis's longer bus idea won't work," Oct. 19.
I beg to differ with Dale Laird's assertion that city council candidate Tim Louis doesn't do research on his policy positions before announcing them. [But] Laird misses the point when he talks about longer buses (so-called "three section" or "bi-articulated" buses) possibly going too slow up 10th Avenue en route to UBC. The fundamental question is not how slow the buses go up hill, but the real lack of passenger capacity on the current B-Line bus system along Broadway and 10th.
I frequently have to take the B-Line along Broadway and it's not unusual to have four or five B-Lines pass you before you can actually squeeze on to one. It would be a luxury to actually get on-and get a seat-on a B-Line bus that is going slow up a hill.
Higher capacity, bi-articulated buses have proven themselves in large cities in South America. These are buses that function in real life, they are not drawing board dreams.
Paul Houle, Vancouver
