Poor TransLink. The agency desperately wants to avoid negative publicity, what with their funding future hanging in the balance of a referendum next year, so they are pushing back against the Teddy Waste Award they recently won for their empty parking lot.

In the spirit of cooperation, we thought we would help TransLink out with ten ways to solve their parking dilemma:

1. Try selling a monthly pass for $25, so that regular users are provided with a discount
2. Install hockey nets so that kids can use the empty lot
3. Charge $1 (a 50% discount) if you park in the expansion lot
4. Build a 7-11 in the corner of the empty lot, as kids with skateboards always seem to hang out in 7-11 parking lots
5. Start smashing the windows of cars parking on the street and leave a slightly threating note: “youse know, this wouldn’t happen if you parked in the TransLink lot”
6. Allow for free parking on weekends
7. Two words: tumbleweed races
8. Charge $1.25 for parking in either the old or new lot, see if that improves interest. If lots full, raise to $1.50
9. Lease it out to driver training schools
10. Hold TransLink board meetings there - they only meet in private anyway, and there's never anyone in that lot...

See? Who says we can't be helpful?