Contest corner: win a FareCard! Be theft smart with COMI N G E V e n t s Win a free FareCard! ✔ Last ISSUE’S FARECARD Winner We had a whopping 1070 correct ✔ Celebrating the Birth of Prophet Muhammad: Feb 18th, at The Royal King Palace (Payal Center) 8158-128 Street Unit #365 Surrey, entries in our last contest, and Rayana K Garen won the SEP FareCard! The answer? Broadway - City Hall. BC. Muslims Against Terrorism and Islamic Supreme Council Of your smartphone on Canada. All Muslims and non Muslims from all communities are WIN A FREE FARECARD! It will be for 1, 2 or 3 zones, invited to attend this blessed program. SEP based on where the winner travels. Email thebuzzer@ ✔✔ An exhibition of new artworks: Running until Feb 20, 2012, at translink.ca with the answer to the question, your full name, daytime transit Leigh Square Community Arts Village 1100-2253 Leigh Square, phone number and where you got the Buzzer (include the route Making sure you stay safe on transit means taking precautions Port Coquitlam. Leigh Square Community Arts Village presents number if you got it on a bus). Make sure you include everything­ - Published by TransLink • Friday, February 3, 2012 with your valuable electronics. With recent reports of thefts of new artworks by members of the Art Focus Group that interprets entries missing any of this info will not be entered to win. One entry smartphones and other personal high-tech devices near transit the theme of community spirit to celebrate “Spirit Week”. Art per person please. stations, it’s good to take a moment and think about your ac- Focus is a group of Tri-City area artists working in a variety of tions before your trip. What is the URL of the TransLink mobile service? (Hint: It’s in this media whose goals are to share ideas, to exhibit in shows, to issue and it starts with “m.”.) support and learn from each other, and from other artists in Here’s some simple rules you can follow to help protect your- the community. Information at portcoquitlam.ca/leighsquare. Enter by February 20 at 9 a.m. We’ll draw a name from all correct self and your valuables. Admission is free. entries. The winner will be notified by phone shortly after the draw. ✔ If someone you don’t know asks ✔✔ Talking Stick Festival: Feb 20– Mar 4, in various venues in Yaletown PRIVACY POLICY We use your personal info only for the contest, and to use your phone, offer to make and along Commercial Drive. Celebrating aboriginal artists from a we delete all entries after we pick a winner. Here’s the long version: the call on the person’s behalf variety of artistic expressions, this vibrant festival provides a stage Your personal information is collected, pursuant to section 26(c) of the instead. If the person says it’s an for extraordinary Aboriginal artists, established and emerging, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, solely for the emergency, again, offer to make featuring diverse and varied performances by some of the top purpose of administering this contest. It will be destroyed upon the the call for them. local, national and international First Nations artists. Tickets are determination of a contest winner. Please direct questions regarding available at ticketstonight.ca or 604.684.2787. Tickets range from this collection to the Buzzer Editor at TransLink, 1600-4720 Kingsway, ✔ Pay attention to your surround- $12 - $25, and pay what you can performances. , BC V5H 4N2 or [email protected]. ings. Remove your headphones and earbuds if at all possible, or at ✔✔ Confessions of the Other Woman: Feb 22-25, 8pm, at the Shadbolt least lower the volume. Smart- Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC. The B A C K I s s u e s phones can easily distract you moving portrayal of a modern woman driven by passion, racked by from what’s going on around you. The Buzzer is 95 years old. In this section, we mine a back issue for a questions of integrity, and bound by a legacy of honour. Tickets Your hearing can be your best nugget of Buzzer gold. and information at 604.205.3000 and shadboltcentre.com defence. ✔ Have you ever thought that taking transit is kinda ✔ Rotary Club of White Rock’s Annual Book Sale. Feb. 26-Mar 4, ©Andrea Rodgers 1974 like a game? What’s the fastest route to take to get ✔ When possible, try to stay in 2012, Semiahmoo Shopping Centre, , 1701 152 St., to where you’re going? Should I take the SkyTrain or public areas and avoid isolated ones. Surrey, BC. Thousands of books, great prices. is there a more direct way to get there by bus? Well, it turns out ✔ Transit in 2012 that some others have thought of this idea nearly 30 years ago and ✔ Trust your instincts and act with conviction. If you feel ✔ Community Band is Looking For Musicians!: We play made a board game out of it. It’s called Vancouver Buses, and it was unsafe at any time, cross the street and/or enter a business or Monday nights at 7:30, and are adjacent to stadium SkyTrain in featured in the February 15th, 1974 edition of the Buzzer. It was other busy public space if possible. Vancouver. Haven’t played in a while? Wanna get out and have In this issue... designed as a teacher’s aid with the fun while playing music? Come join our band and play with us! help of B.C. Hydro Transportation ✔ Don’t resist. If you are confronted by someone demanding We are a charismatic, fun band of varying ages and experience. division Engineer-in-Training Barry your smart phone, do not challenge him/her. Instead, hand Call Brian at 604.789.1865. It is free and includes a free uniform! » Being smart with your smartphone Sanford. over your smartphone or other personal high-tech device and ✔✔ Positive Thinkers Toastmasters: Tuesdays at 7:30 pm, at the BC try to disengage from the confrontation as soon as possible. » Take transit to Mount Pleasant “”Vancouver Buses” is a board game which takes contestants on an Hydro Building, 333 Dunsmuir, Vancouver. Does public speaking imaginary trip from through make you nervous? Gain confidence and learn speaking and ✔ Report the theft as soon as possible. If your smartphone or » Improvements to transit this year to UBC and circling back to Kootenay Loop...There are plenty of leadership skills in a friendly supportive non-profit club. hazards such as trolley poles coming off wires, road repairs and other possessions are stolen, you should report the crime to Information at 604-922-6295. going to sleep on the bus which delay the trip, and transfer squares both police and your cell phone service provider. If the theft which move players more rapidly.” just occurred, call 9-1-1. If you do not immediately report Send your community events to Visit the Buzzer blog the theft, call the Transit Police non-emergency number: [email protected] If anyone has the game, we’d love to see it! Please email 604.515.8300. at buzzer.translink.ca [email protected]. Printed on recycled paper. Vol. 96 No. 4, ISSN 0714-1688. SeaBus is also due to expand its services, and details m.translink.ca – Trans- Metro Vancouver Transit rolling into on that expansion will be announced in the coming Link will continue to up- months. date it’s mobile service 2012 which enables you to by transit: Mount Upgrades to Main Street-Science World Station include see where your bus is in This will be a busy year for TransLink. Here’s a rundown a new elevator (on the east side), a detailed design con- real time! Use the Next of what you’ll see out and about on the system. sultation and construction will start. Bus service to search for Pleasant your favourite route, The community of Mount Pleasant is a constantly evolving Moving Forward bus stop or location. neighbourhood of in- Planning and design is underway for upgrades at other stations across the network. Click on the bus you dependent boutiques, As part of the Moving Forward supplemental plan, want to take and the coffee shops, restau- approved in late 2011 by Mayors’ Council on Regional Cyclists will see initiatives to make bicycling a more at- orange colour will tell rants, businesses, resi- Transportation, customers can expect a variety of ser- tractive form of transportation with the restoration of you where it is, where dences, schools and vice improvements throughout the system. it’s going and where the bus will stop. Future releases of community centres. $6 million-a-year funding. Among the planned projects are upgrades to the BC Parkway, which follows the our Next Bus service will help predict the time when your According to the City Buses – An additional 40,000 service hours will be route of the Expo Line. bus will arrive! of Vancouver, the added in April, and by year’s end, 180,000 new service boudaries of the com- hours will be in place. A campaign will be launched to raise awareness of the munity are roughly In addition to projects under the Moving Forward plan, TransLink is also proceeding with many other initiatives. Golden Ears Bridge and the real savings motorists in the the south side of the More than half of these new hours will be allocated in area can realize in time, fuel and money, even after pay- Cambie Street Bridge, running all the way to Clark Drive the South of Fraser Area, including a new local service, Faregates – The preparatory work for the installation ing the toll. and 6th Avenue at the northern edge, and 16th Avenue the #531, connecting South Surrey/White Rock and of faregates is nearing completion at some stations. As running from Cambie Street to Clark Drive as the southern Langley via 24th Avenue. 2012 progresses, the gates themselves, with readers to There will be a consultation on a replacement for the edge. enable the Compass card, will appear across the SkyTrain Pattullo Bridge. Later in the year, a new B-Line service will be intro- system. Preliminary testing of the card is expected to The bus routes that service Mount Pleasant are the #3, #8, duced on King George Boulevard/104th Avenue con- begin in late fall. Completion of the North Shore Area Transit Plan. #9, #19, N19, #84 and the 99 B-Line. Running through the necting Guildford, Surrey heart of the community is Main Street. Main is the only Central, Newton and In addition to providing a convenient means for custom- Further work on the Surrey and Broadway/UBC Rapid street in Metro Vancouver to have passenger information . Transit Plans. displays on bus stop poles. These displays show when the ers to pre-pay their transit fares, Compass cards–which activate the faregates and card readers–will provide next bus is scheduled to arrive and are the result of one-off The Frequent Transit Net- firm data to plan for greater efficiency in the transit Projects such as faregate/card reader installation and funding from Transport Canada, TransLink and the City of work–made up of routes system. The cards will also provide necessary informa- other OnTrack work will bring benefits to customers in Vancouver. where transit runs at least tion for a fare review. the near future but can also be expected to cause some every 15 minutes from temporary inconvenience during the construction period. Main Street is also the location of early morning until mid-evening, seven days a week– The OnTrack program, a program to upgrade the origi- TransLink will keep customers informed, but people community events like Car Free will expand. New additions include the #19 Stanley nal Expo Line and its stations, will continue. should also check translink.ca/ontrack to get the most Days and numerous projects put on Park/Metrotown, Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver, up-to-date information on affected stations and ex- by Viva Vancouver. the 97 B-Line and the #145 SFU/Production Station. Work on , including the long-awaited changes.

west-side elevator, will be completed. At the foot of Mount Pleasant is The 99 B-Line will see a significant increase in service More Moving Forward projects, particularly those involv- Southeast False Creek, home of the during off-peak periods and on weekends. ing bus service expansion, will be announced through former 2010 Winter Olympic Village. Connecting the sea- 2012. TransLink closed out 2011 with its highest ever wall from Telus Science World to the Cambie Street Bridge, Two of the more heavily-used NightBus routes–the customer satisfaction rating (7.7/10) and is looking to this addition to the community makes for an ideal area for N19 Surrey Central and N24 Upper Lonsdale–will be TransLink will continue to develop our Customer Infor- mation Initiatives on twitter.com/translink, face- these service improvements as a way of building on that sightseeing that’s just walking distance from the SkyTrain. expanded. Planning is underway for additional service success. to address overcrowding. book.com/Translink and foursquare.com/translink.