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not sureA mildly incredible collorary story to a plane crash that happened here in BC just over two years ago.
A Jan. 21, 2006 airplane crash on Vancouver Island that claimed the lives of 3 people was immediately blamed on the company when in fact the problem was mechanical.
As a follow up to their initial conclusions, Transport Canada and three of its employees are now being sued.
Moreover, it has been reported that other countries have already made the missing part MANDATORY in aviation rules guidelines.
Despite this, the lawsuit remarks that TC did not retract its initial statements of error as regarded by the Transportation Safety Board and even with the full knowledge of the crash reasons coming to light.
Someone to blame?
Thank heavens for civil court, can anyone out there imagine being the fall guy the governments own wrong doing? It borders on the criminal.
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Speaking of which,
following a recent announcement that power from
our public transportation system has recently been devolved ,
we find a nice tidy little year end dividend goes to the folks
responsible for running the show and encouraging "people" to go green,
take transit and help the environment. In addition to more
restricted public input to and for the system we use...
Govt appointed transit gives themselves 500 % pay raises
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But theres a small bit of encouragement trickling out of Mexico City,
a population teeming with 8 million people...
there, in response to lack of proper respect for female ridership and poor atmosphere for women to travel in a bus filled with men; often subject to harrasement, the system is offering WOMEN ONLY buses for those who wish to wait for one and if one is available in the area.
On Single-Sex Buses, Relief From Unwanted Contact
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So whereas things appear at least to be showing small signs of improvement elsewhere; short glimpses of hope seen through a passing window ....higher costs for going green and taking transit here seem to be returning little in terms of a return on investment.
As this article goes to show, what the current Transit board is doing amounts to little more than -,....pure highway robbery, dipping their hands into the public purse many times over with no improved service.
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Note: the story on Female Only buses in Mexico City has video also but I found the video quality for the same story to be much better here.
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