myversa

I think you only can use the old fare tickets for another month.

notgoddy

That would be bull****, I just bought a pack of 10 and I don't need ride the bus every day...

WaruiOne

don't bother, they will make you pay the difference.
and just because there are oil from Alberta doesn't mean we don't have to buy! haha, in fact, I believe Albertan oil are more expensive to produce than the Middle East ones?

yungfourfour

gas price did go up previous year
well, for people making minimum wage, their incomes are not justified since 2001

swallow_046

so can we still use the old faresaver?  i didn't stock up on them but i still have an entire booklet from november

Hyde

luckly, i dont even know how to take the bus!

myversa

I think you can still use it for the first month.  And afterwards, you need to pay the difference.

Most places the fares are sold out already...

myversa

Vancouver bus system is not as good as other cities in North America.

【本報記者蘇嫻雅溫哥華報導】儘管先前有「公車乘客聯盟」的攔路抗議，公車票價還是漲定了，而且1月1日就採用新票價。對於公車一再漲價，常搭乘者都覺得漲太多，也認為「小市民完全沒有討價還價的餘地」。不過，他們同時發現大溫交通局很聰明，懂得讓阻力減到最小。

加西台灣人藝術家聯誼會的成員吳菊表示，她移民四年，已經碰到不只二次公車票價上漲，理由都是油價漲物價也漲，如果大家的薪水也跟著漲，公車票價調漲才合理，否則會讓本來就不充裕的低收入者，生活更困難。

家住素里的吳菊，原本往返溫哥華市中心是9元，漲價後一趟就是5元，來回要10元，比在台灣或中國搭計程車都還貴。「真正要出去，還是得買票，總不能因為公車漲價就不出門，小市民根本沒有討價還價的餘地。」她說。

根據吳菊的觀察，大溫交通局很聰明，漲價總是漲得很成功。「因為經常坐車的，他們可以買月票，月票漲得不多，原本一段票是69元，漲到73 元，兩段票95元漲到99元，三段票130元漲到136元，並不是太多，買月票的可能就算了。至於買單張票的，多半不常搭車，既然不常搭，當然也覺得較無所謂。」

吳菊認為，這是每次漲價都沒有引起全民大反彈的原因，只要反對的力量不夠大，漲價案就很容易成功。

台灣客家會副會長周元英認為，若要鼓勵大家少開車、少排放廢氣，就應該鼓勵大家使用大眾運輸系統，票價不應該一下子加這麼多。像現在正在興建的加拿大線，可以讓列治文的人很容易到溫哥華市中心，將來若把票價定太高，恐怕很多人寧願開車，政府應鼓勵大眾乘公車。

由於家裡只有一部車，每周固定到台加文化協會授課的周元英，經常都搭公車前往台加，她從溫東到溫南，開車只要十幾二十分鐘，搭公車得換三班，一趟下來要花一個半小時。「公車這麼不方便，如果票價又高，不是等於鼓勵大家都買車嗎？」她認為重視環保的政府單位，應該想清楚這一點。

myversa

I just phoned Translink and confirmed that there is no need to add money if you have old bus fare tickets.