From financing at netcourrier.com Sat Oct 2 21:26:10 2004 From: financing at netcourrier.com (info) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:26:10 -0400 Subject: [Busriders-van] Canadian funding available Message-ID: Canadian Subsidy Directory 4865 Hwy 138,R.R 1 Saint-Andrews West Ontario, KOC 2A0 Subsidies, Grants and loans available. >From governments & foundations. More than 2600 programs listed. The American Grants and Loans Directory is also available for the United States. This guide is sold $ 69.95 Call toll free 1 - 8 6 6 - 3 2 2 - 3 3 7 6 Visa & Mastercard accepted From marthacroberts at netscape.net Wed Oct 13 22:26:48 2004 From: marthacroberts at netscape.net (Martha and Aiyanas) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:26:48 -0400 Subject: [Busriders-van] Letter to COPE re: Fare Hike Message-ID: <5B30798A.05D525AC.1C979D79@netscape.net> October 13, 2004 Mayor Campbell and Councillors: Last week I was very pleased and relieved when I heard that the proposed increases for bus fares did not go through. I really appreciated hearing Councillor Raymond Louie on Channel MTV when he gave such clear and humane reasons why the bus increase should not be accepted. Those reasons still stand - so what happened? Even understanding the political and economic bind the City of Vancouver has been placed in due to Olympic 2010 and the RAV line by the small special interest groups who gain from it and the Provincial and Federal Governments, I am disappointed and disillusioned that this issue has returned to the table. The people who have the biggest vested interest in making large sums of money from the Olympics and want the RAV are the ones who should literally put their own money on the line, not mine. I need my money to go for food; I have a disability pass but 7-year old son doesn't and every quarter counts for us. If this fare increase goes though on Friday, I am one who will not be bothering to vote for wards on Saturday, because it will be obvious the ward system makes no difference as to who and what runs Vancouver. Enough is enough. I will also be forwarding this to others. Sincerely, Lenore S. Clemens 710- 239 East Georgia St. Vancouver, BC V6A 4J7 __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp From JimS at vcn.bc.ca Tue Oct 12 18:46:12 2004 From: JimS at vcn.bc.ca (Jim Shewchuk) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:46:12 -0700 Subject: [Busriders-van] Call to action: Translink is acting the "pickpocket" again! Message-ID: <200410150142.i9F1gg613600@vcn.bc.ca> Translink board member Councillor R. Louie (Vancouver: 604-873-7743) has **flip-flopped** on the fare increase!! At the previous meeting, he voted against the increase, but this month, in violation of a Translink "rule of order" (noted below) he has re-introduced it as item 4.2 on this Fridays board meeting agenda!! According to the news item on CKWX, the proposed increase applies to adult fare users (both cash and pass) and, in violation of their pricing agreement with the Universities, to *** U-PASS users ***!!! The "rule of order" this violates is: "In order to re-visit an item, the board must *first* vote 60% in favor of doing so" (Quote from past chair George Puil during the transit lockout, and recorded in board minutes) According to the board minutes since, there is *no* record of this rule being revoked, therefore it is still in force! This same rule can be invoked against RAV: the so-called approval only means that RAV is allowed to be re-visited at some future date. Possible fight plan: Bring up where the funds from the previous fare increases went: (into huge pay increases for the board, and contrary to Translink claims, *not* into any service improvements...)