I've extolled the virtues of easy transit many times here. I love never, ever having to drive downtown. Why bother with the hassle, cost, and inconvenience when it's so much easier jumping on the SkyTrain? My apartment building opens right into the Columbia Station in New Westminster. It is the white door in the photo below. I hardly have to step outside which makes it extremely easy to take transit.
I do drive to BCIT when I teach but it's really not necessary. I could get there almost as quickly and certainly as cheaply by taking the SkyTrain to Metrotown and the bus down the hill to the Burnaby campus. Some habits die hard though even when gas is selling at $1.35 per liter!
