might take it on opening day

man, i was sooooo looking forward to this, to go downtown.

wy cant they have it open later so that people can take the train back to richmond, instead of driving. last train leaves waterfront to richond at 1:15am, clubs dont get out till 2 or 3. the train then opens up at like 5:15

why not keep it open for that 4 hours?

Because you drunken horny clubbers could totally wait so the system can be more affordable to those who don't club. :wooha:

With the exception of New York, no major city I can think of keeps their metro system open 24 hours. You need down time for maintenance, clean-up, etc.

Skytrain's hours are pretty reasonable. For example, Paris shuts down their system at 12:30 AM and the last train in Hong Kong leaves Central before 1 AM.

Take the night bus. Considering the traffic at night it probably takes about the same amount of time.

Will the upass work for the canada line?

Weird, I saw one of these new trains being operated on the Expo line =S

Obviously.

No, not quite obviously.

A lot of the other fare cards won't work for the Canada Line without paying the add fare portion.

What other fare cards? Is the question you're really asking, "Can I go to the airport with the upass without having to add an additional fare?"

If you're talking about the canadaline trains then no, you didn't.
They're incompatable with the expo/millenium line system.
what u saw were probably one of the 2 new millenium line trains painted in the grey colors like the trolley buses.

Ughhhh really?

Why would they be incompatible? That would be dumb.

Because they do not run the same technology. In the bidding process, the additional savings from using the same technology as the other lines was not allowed to be factored in.

The Canada Line features a wider track and uses a different propulsion system. This was done to save costs as the system used on the Expo/Millenium Lines is to put it simply, higher-tech.

Domestic vs Import. haha

Expo/millenium is canadian made, the new canadaline trains are hyundai.

Thanks for filling me in =) I'll keep an eye out for the new paint jobs

so... did anyone take it?

Apparently the wait is like an hour and there's like thousands of people waiting. No thanks I'll wait to check it out.

wait till 3pm when it becomes free ;)

there was a huge lineup outside of city-hall when i was watching lunch television... ill hop on it next time, too many fucking ppl, 50,000 expected to ride on it today

It's nice to have easier access to downtown.

However, we pay to build it, and pay to use it, WTF! Ridiculous to me.

Canada-line isn't owned by Translink technically. :)

You pay for a vehicle and you pay to operate/maintain it. Is the difference?

I'm gonna ride it on Sunday. Hype should be pretty low by then.

i'd rather drive.