[bru-info] Picket to stop the fare increase - Thursday, May 31@ 7:00pm

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FARE INCREASE!
Picket to stop the fare increase - Thursday, May 31@ 7:00pm

It's that time again - when TransLink yet again threatens to increase
transit fares.  TransLink has threatened to increase fares in 2008 by
at least 6%.  Meanwhile, bus riders are trying to make ends meet on a
$6 minimum wage and stagnating welfare rates, in the most expensive
region in Canada.  This is a direct attack on the health of poor and
working class communities.

We are asking our members and all transit dependent people to come
out to TransLink's 'public consultation' on the 2008 Transportation
Plan.  Join the picket, make your voice heard, and speak out against
the proposed fare increase. TransLink needs to hear our opposition to
the proposed fare increase and our resistance the privatization of our
public transit system. We need to expose the real effects of a fare increase
on bus
riders!

If you are fed up with TransLink's right wing, band-aid remedies to
the transit crisis in the GVRD and would like to demonstrate your
opposition to the plan to increase transit fares, join the Bus Riders
Union at the picket this week.

When: Thursday, May 31st, 7:00pm
Where: Plaza 500 hotel @ Ballroom, 500 West 12th Avenue Vancouver

Call or contact the BRU office for more information at 604-215-2775
or email us at busridersunion at gmail.com, or visist our website at
bru.vcn.bc.ca


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Bus Riders Union
672 East Broadway St.
Vancouver BC
V5T 1X6
http://bru.vcn.bc.ca/
604-215-2775
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