This is beyond ridiculous. It’s infuriating and very hurtful now. Making the poor and marginalized carry this is unfair. This has taken away our independence, costing us more than we can afford, both physically and mentally.

These workers should have been legislated back to work a long time ago. They deserve a raise but certainly not what Vancouver bus drivers get as Fraser Valley drivers don't have to contend with anywhere near the same amount of traffic!

Why does the province has to contract our transit out to a foreign company? Why can’t we be part of Translink? First Trnasit is now part of a French corporation. That corporation probably doesn’t even know where we are located. We are probably like a midget to them. What do they care about us? BC government is at fault! Big time fault.
If the provincial and federal govt want us to abandon our cars, then provide public transport as an essential service. I am so frustrated about this transit strike that has gone on for months. I usually take transit #66 to Lougheed ( $4 ) and get in Translink to YVR. The entire journey cost me approximately $6 one way. Now, during the strike, I have to book the Valley Airporter Shuttle and it cost me $110 one way!

I'm very disturbed that the poor and disenfranchised have to carry this burden. I thought Canada was not that kind of country. The refugees I work with do not deserve the suffering we impose on them. They have suffeed enough already! So sad!

My daughter has been unable to take transit to her from school. My son has been unable to take transit to or from work. My wife and I share one car and some days our family feels like a taxi company as we have to drive family members in the place of our missing transit service, we feel lucky that we have the flexibility to drive not everybody can drive a private vehicle. And the governments extreme slowness in responding to the strike, and before that allowing things to get so bad for the drivers shows how little priority, our city and a Province puts on providing us with effective public transportation as citizens it seems to be our responsibility to inform the leaders about the importance of public transportation. Government leaders seem to be stuck in some kind of 1950s pipe dream about ever expanding suburbs and private cars. Not everybody wants that unsustainable nightmare, but here we are.

First Transit is not an American company and hasn’t been for years. It was Swiss, then was bought at the beginning of this year by TransDev, a French corporation that made its fortune privatizing public transit throughout Europe.

The point stands, though, that the Province of BC should not be pouring millions of public dollars into the coffers of a private, for-profit corporation. It’s time to end these insidious P3s and bring all public transit back fully into public hands — ownership and operation.

America First Transit holding CANADIANS hostage in their own country. What a great example our neighbours from the south have been setting recently. So there not just happy screwing up their country they have to apply their screwball logic up here too !

I have been asking the ministry of social development and child development to help me with my child’s rides to his appointments for physio n specialist enough is enough how much more of us have to suffer because of this strike I am getting sick of paying for the taxis it’s taking a toll on my budget i am getting sick of paying for taxis we need transit to run us lower mainland people need transit what about us do u guys care about how much it changed our lives and my son is in a wheelchair so we have to take a wheelchair taxi n there always late do you guys really need a extra ten days like really it’s been three months now jeez I am getting tired of this strike

I normally take the bus to & from work but now my husband has to come home from his job to drive me to and from work. NOT HAPPY!! I feel for the drivers but enough is enough. Also why is an American company paying Canadian bus drivers.

Enough already I am shocked it is a USA company and why can’t Abbotsford have they own direct bus drivers this is ridiculous and we are recycle though forget the environment for fuel and having people take taxis and Ubers now

I was so hoping to see an end to this strike. I am 64 years old and have had to ask the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction for extra money for food, since I have had to spend part of my food budget on cabs to do my shopping and go to Dr's appointments etc. The problem is the ministry will on give me 40 dollars which does not even come close to what I have to spend on cabs. I can not get to a food bank as that would be something like a 30 dollar round trip cab fair for me. This government needs to step in and fast. You gave Mr Ready his 10 days and now he is asking for more. There is something very wrong here.