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SkyTrain troubles early Friday
Updated 6:20 a.m.: A power-supply problem has shut down the SkyTrain between King George and Royal Oak stations on the Expo Line, as well as between Columbia and Braid on the Millennium Line, causing...
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Nov. 12: Expo Line running again after morning-long shutdown
Updated 1:20 p.m.: TransLink says both the Expo and Millennium lines have been restored to full service after mechanical and electrical problems hit the system through much of Saturday morning. The...
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Stephanie Ryan: Surrey is being badly shortchanged on transit
Public transportation has become a key issue in many Metro Vancouver civic elections, but nowhere is the lack of service more acute than in Surrey. Surrey has become a have-not city when it comes to...
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Editorial: It’s time for transit users to pay more
No sooner had TransLink announced plans to hike fares next January — by which time it will have been five years since the last increase — that the grousing by transit users began. If you were to...
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Province Letters: Transit fares, Evergreen Line, Enbridge pipeline, HST, junk...
I moved to North Surrey 10 years ago, and have been a three-zone transit pass holder ever since. Our family owns a car, but between my spouse riding her bike to work and me taking transit to work, we...
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Jordan Bateman: TransLink must cut costs, starting with its cops
As regional mayors and the B.C. government consider giving TransLink up to two dozen new taxation tools, it is becoming clear that there are problems within the transit authority. Whistleblowers and...
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Province Letters: TransLink, SkyTrain, editorial bias, BCTF rhetoric,...
Isn’t it about time TransLink admitted they have backed the wrong horse? Right back in 1986, when the first section of SkyTrain was opened on Terminal Avenue (how fitting) for Expo 86, they were told...
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Province Letters: Red lights, SkyTrain, transit, transsexual, Jenna...
Re: Drivers who run red lights. Perhaps someone should also be looking at the numbers of people who seem to feel that they no longer have to stop before turning right at either a red light or a stop...
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SkyTrain bear spray incident mars peaceful playoff exit
A number of SkyTrain passengers suffered minor injuries Sunday evening after a man blasted a can of bear spray into two train cars. Transit Police remind people not to take bear spray on their commute....
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Editorial: Why weren’t fines collected all along?
The reason people go to work each day, year after year, and agree to pay taxes can be distilled down to this: there is general agreement that some things are best accomplished by government. So it is...
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Missed ferries and white rabbits
Travelling alone isn’t always fun. Those whimsical curiosities that I mentioned? Sometimes they need to be ignored. Sometimes there needs to be more focus on linear movement, rather than the...
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Victim recount of SkyTrain terror
Tammie McManus’ rides home on the SkyTrain will never be the same. The Burnaby esthetician was one of many passengers “trapped” on board the Sunday night route after a B.C. Lions game when a deranged...
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The trouble with transoms
As a music writer, I have to quell the urge to rip the headset off Skytrain passengers and find out to what they’re listening. What music? Where did they first hear it? On the radio, online or...
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Editorial: A modest proposal for new TransLink taxes
A proposal by TransLink officials to raise property taxes to pay for yet another one of their budget shortfalls is being almost universally panned by taxpayers. In many cases, ratepayers accused those...
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Editorial: TransLink should raise fares a little to make budget
TransLink’s 2013 Base Plan and Outlook was released last week and it makes for interesting reading if you’re a motorist — the vast majority of people in the region. The document is where TransLink...
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Surrey challenges public to come up with pop-up park designs
Expect to see another pop-up park in Surrey’s city centre area. (Submitted Photo — City of Surrey) The City of Surrey is challenging individuals and groups to design a summertime pop-up park in the...
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Letters: TransLink, transit, SkyTrain, senators, forests, land tenure, rapist
Hardly ‘world class’ Though I wasn’t caught by the SkyTrain system glitch, I do take issue with TransLink claiming to be “world-class” transportation. I spent 13 years using Toronto’s TTC, both bus and...
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Editorial: Creep in ICBC’s role is abuse of power
As letters to the editor show, there isn’t much public sympathy for serial transit-fare evader Rayanne Tupman or the thousands of others like her. But we’d all do well to consider her crime: as a...
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Expo and Millennium SkyTrain lines shut down
UPDATE (5:05 p.m.): The Expo Line has been fixed and crews are conducting a safety sweep. The line is expected to open in segments shortly, and should be fully running by 5:45 p.m., Transit Police say....
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No SkyTrain for you! Frustrated commuters vent on Twitter
It’s a rough week to be the people behind the curtain at TransLink’s Twitter account. For the third time week, SkyTrain passengers on the Millennium and Expo lines found themselves sardined in crowded...
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