Frustrated HandyDart riders urge TransLink to help end strike

Former city councillor Tim Louis leads a protest for HandyDart riders at TransLink’s Metrotown offices in Burnaby on Thursday.

Published: December 04, 2009 3:45 a.m.

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About two-dozen HandyDart users gathered at TransLink’s Metrotown offices in Burnaby Thursday to express their frustration with a transit strike that has left many stranded in their own homes.

Bet Tuason, a HandyDart rider who is in a wheelchair, was among those who waited in the lobby while a dozen riders met with TransLink to urge them to intervene and use binding arbitration to end the strike.

Tuason said the strike has been tough on him. He hasn’t been able to meet with the people he mentors, nor has he been able to go to his exercises or rehab.

“It’s almost like I’m confined in the house,” said Tuason. “Life is sort of turned upside down.”

TransLink spokesman Ken Hardie said the transportation authority would cajole both parties to get them bargaining, but could not force them to enter binding arbitration.

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