Markus’ Blog

Today’s commute to work was pretty much an exact repeat of yesterday’s. A few things were different:

• At 7am, a radio announcement was made on 95 Crave that Translink had kept four trolley buses running overnight to keep the wires clear and that that had worked.
• The bus was just beeping, it didn’t turn into the continous alarm heard yesterday.
• We were going faster (maybe 25 km/h as opposed to 10 km/h yesterday).
• We made it till 29^th Avenue till we were told to get off the bus (yesterday the journey was over for me as 31^st Avenue).

Without the radio announcement I probably would have checked Translink’s web-site for up-to-date information or I would have walked over to Knight street right away. With the announcement, however, I decided it would be “save” to just give it another shot. — It was not.

This is what Translink has to say this time around:

17 trolleys were kept running through the city overnight to keep the trolley wires warm, and that’s helped get our morning rush-hour service on the roads. Still some isolated instances of delays due to ice on overhead, predominantly in shaded areas.

So, yes, while it may be true that running 17 buses over night (not 4 like they said on the radio) helped, it did not make much of a difference for me. Still ended up taking #25 and #22 instead.

And the main question remains:

Why did nobody clue into this ahead of time?!

Something else is not going to change, either:

I hate incompetency, of which this is a prime example.