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			   On The Buses, Remember When....

...All Victoria bound buses via Butchart Gardens stopped at the Red Barn 
   Market (5000 W. Saanich Rd.) on the way into Victoria along West Saanich
   Road.
...All Butchart bound buses picked up the Victoria Gray Line step-on guides
   at Saanichton Fair Grounds after leaving the ferry at Swartz Bay.
...All PSL and VICL buses were in the "Town & Country Bus" livery (see top of 
   BC Rock 'N Bus main page).
...PSL buses stopped at Essondale (Riverview) and Colony Farm (zone 6) on the
   way to Mission, BC.
...There was a "T" Route to Cloverdale which ran along Bose Rd. (64th Ave.)
   in Surrey, BC.
...Some PSL drivers had to do three (3) Newton Loops, punching a cash fare,
   or checking a return ticket, for every passenger.
...BC Hydro transit drivers carried a $120 change fund, which included school
   tokens. Many drivers carried their change fund in a fishing tackle box.
...There were yellow "Stage Stop" signs all along the main routes and by-ways
   of the Fraser Valley.
...PSL drivers had to know 39 different zones between Vancouver and Hope, BC.
...PSL drivers were paid mileage on only two routes - Harrison Hot Springs
   and the Hope run.
...PSL's Bruce Simpson had an APB out on every bus he took through the Fraser
   Valley.
...about fifteen (15) PSL drivers had their own flying club and Cessna 172
   (CF-WBJ) with a Pegasus logo on the tail.
...Certain Vancr-based PSL drivers went skinny dipping on their Nanaimo
   layover.
...A certain ISL driver flooded all 7 floors of the King's Inn motel in Reno,
   after falling asleep in the bathtub after a "hard" day.
...PSL drivers tried to save every Pegasus logo on every buiding and store in
   the Fraser Valley, and when a certain PSL driver tried to figure out how
   he could get the tiled logo from the floor inside the main doors of the
   Pacific Stage Lines bus depot at 150 Dunsmuir St., before it was
   demolished.
...PSL's Royal Victorian Service to Victoria via Butchart Gardens cost $19.95
   round trip.
...PSL used to do the local service through Ladner (picking up freight and
   parcel express at the local gas station) and Tsawassen to the Gulf Island
   ferry. 
...PSL also did the local run to White Rock, with drivers spending a
   miserable three hour layover at the Bus Depot on Marine Drive in the dead
   of winter.
...Taking the longshoremen to the Seaboard Terminal in North Vancouver each
   morning.
...Picking up the CN workers on the Port Mann Loop.
...Judy looked after the Chilliwack Bus Depot and Chuck looked after the
   Langley Depot.
...PSL and VICL drivers went to the Glenshiel (south of Victoria depot, next 
   to Thunderbird Park) for lunch.
...Six PSL drivers made an agreement with management (George Angus) that when
   they were hired
...ISL's Bob Raynor worked for White Line Tours (owned by C & C Taxi) in
   Victoria. (Gray Line's John Fisher also worked for White Line Tours, as 
   did Charter Bus Lines' Ed Tiller). PSL's Ron Mathews and VICL's Wally Watson 
...On Wed. April 28th, 1999, when five ex-PSL drivers showed up on the
   Spirit of Vancr Island (13:00 ex Tsaw). Bus driving experience among five
   drivers totalled more than 160 years: Phil Waters (PCL): 34 years; Jim
   Davis (retired): 35 years; Bill Rogers (PCL): 32 years; Peter Haima (PCL):
   32 years; Bill Roberts (ISL): 29 years. Also on board was Art Wilson (CBL):
   32 years.
...Transit buses used to circle the coffee shop at the Richmond Park 'n Ride
   between __________ and Garden City Rd.
...PSL drivers loaded the Greyhound freighters at BC Hydro's Carrall St. 
   yards.
...All charter groups were picked up at the old South Terminal at YVR.
...Transit drivers on the main Hastings St. corridor dreaded Woodward's $1.49 
   day.