+1 for beaver ;D

OMG Finally this is like HK!!!

dL

except it'll be in english and punjabi only.

Canuck Card would be pretty sweet.

Ummm...clearly it'll only be in Cantonese and Punjabi. Actually, at the rate things are going now, it'll probably be in Mandarin. Only. :p

About fucking time.

how many mainlanders and hongers that you know take the skytrain?

c-lais only clog up roads.

Crap, good point LOL

They don't need to ride the SkyTrain. They just own it. "Queen of Shanghai," not "Queen of Beaverton" anymore. They bought it allll...with cash.

woaooowaowa hongcouver is the name soon to be

so how would the price of a trip cost now??
no more 90 minute bus fare?
no more using the same ticket and take another bus without paying?

About time.

no more hobos trying to sell me tickets that they picked up from the ground

Wow, this would be sweet. Octopus is the shiz.

Out of the 38 reply in here, more than half of those mentioned HK =)

they should stick with another sea creature that starts with O.
for example oyster card for london and octopussy for hk, but i cant come up with something else thats sea and starts with O haha.

"OH MY GOD"

the god standing on the sea is holding the SUN

obama card!!!
since everyone loves him so much, im pretty sure he wouldnt mind representing the sea world

If we take the HK model the faring system would be MUCH more reasonable. Each transaction involves a start and end point and the price would be reduced accordingly. So my ride from Richmond Center to Lansdowne would be different than if I ride from Richmond Center to Walmart on no.9 on the 410. Which makes all the fucking sense and encourage the short trip riders.

Short trips are short and in the system right now it's easily cheaper to drive than to bus if I want to take short trips. And short trips are worst for the environment because your car takes time to warm up and the emission system is not running at its best performance, and then when you get there your engine is just left there sitting to cool down and that's energy fucking wasted.

Oxymoron card would make short trips on a bus more of a daily routine.

Orca?

But i prefer these :thumbsup:

cool, even thought I take public transit maybe once a year to watch the nucks game :)

wow its gona take them another 2 years?! lol.... thats probably a early estimate .. proabably shoudl add another 1-2 years on top of that >.>

BAK DAK TONG!!!!! i can't waittttttt i wonder if its going to be exactly like hong kong, you can use it at vending machines and mcdonalds and all the convience stores!

I wish. I have PayPass on my MasterCard and the only places that ever support AND have it working are the Petro-Canadas. I go to Tim Hortons at least once a day, they have it, but it's never working. OR they purposely unplug it because some customers think that it's OMG SO DANGEROUS NO TOUCH TRANSACTIONS.

Frickin' Cro-Magnons.

what?

FINALLY.
Its odd how the HK card is the Octopus, and the London card is the Oyster.
Perhaps Vancouver should name it the Beaver or the Eagle or something