Dear Editor:
I was really displeased to leave Deer Lake Park with some estimated 5,000 other people who attended the Tragically Hip concert to see there was only regular transit service along Canada Way.
I was one of what looked like a couple hundred other people who either had an hour-plus wait at a bus station or an hour-plus walk to a SkyTrain station. The other option was parking at $60 a spot.
Calling a cab company wasn't even possible as phone calls weren't even getting a busy signal. If you saw a cab on the street, it is the first person to run up to the cab who got it, and then watch out as they were speeding as fast as possible to get the next fare. (And to be fair to the driver, I would have done the same: make your hay while the sun shines, so to speak.)
I am all for getting out of the car (actually I sold mine a couple of years ago), but the 1.5-hour wait and, ultimately, the walk to Willingdon Avenue left me tired and angry. On the plus side, it had stopped raining so the walk wasn't a wet one.
Don't get me wrong: Deer Lake Park is an amazing venue, and I was happy to enjoy the concert there. But if you want to hold large acts I believe the City of Burnaby (venue operator), Live Nation (promoter) and TransLink should work together, or at least communicate, to provide adequate resources and alternatives to the $60 parking so everyone can travel smart both to and from a concert!
Robert Dall, Vancouver
