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In December 2020, TransLink announced the purchase of 205 SkyTrain cars from Bombardier at a cost of approximately $722 million. [29] [30] These trains are designated to replace the first-generation Mark I trains, to expand the fleet for the Broadway extension, and to improve capacity on the Expo and Millennium Lines. They will be formed as 41 ...
This phase included provisions for two new B-Line routes, one of which would connect Newton Exchange to the SkyTrain's Expo Line via Scott Road. [4] During a presentation to Delta city council on November 9, 2020, TransLink stated that the route would be named the R6 Scott Rd RapidBus, and run from Newton Exchange to Scott Road station.
Fixed-block signalling was originally used on the Toronto subway since the opening of Toronto's first subway in 1954 and was the first signalling system used on Lines 2 and 4. [109] [110] As of 2022, Lines 2 and 4 use fixed-block signalling but Line 1 no longer does.
The SkyTrain's Canada Line also serves as an airport rail link. "Subway" refers to a rapid transit system using heavy rail with steel wheels. The Toronto subway is the only such system in Canada. "Rubber-tired metro" refers to a rapid transit system using heavy rail with rubber tires. The Montreal Metro is the only such system in Canada.
The newly built system had limited Sunday service until 1990, and shorter revenue hours during weekdays than SkyTrain's current revenue schedule as of 2010. During Expo 86, special shuttle trains ran from a third track at Stadium station, where there was a connection to the monorail serving the main site of the world's fair, to the Canadian ...
Coast Mountain Bus Company operates the Transit Security Department for TransLink. Transit security officers are mobile, ride buses and trains, inspect fares, issue fines and patrol TransLink properties (bus loops and exchanges, SkyTrain stations, SeaBus, etc.) and are authorized to arrest persons who commit criminal offences on or in relation ...
TransLink guaranteed ProTransBC a minimum ridership. [26] The Canada Line opened on August 17, 2009, 15 weeks ahead of schedule and on budget. [27] Ridership rose three years ahead of forecasts, hitting 100,000 passengers per weekday in May 2010 and 110,000 passengers per weekday in February 2011. [28]
All route destination names are based on the official TransLink bus schedules. All routes are operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company except: Routes 214 (off-peak only), 215, 227, 250–256 and 262 (operated by West Vancouver Blue Bus) [1] Routes 280–282, 370, 372, and 560–564 (operated by First Transit)