These changes have been made to increase ridership levels to the magical 100,000/day that Translink needs to meet its contractural obligations with ProTrans (the private operator of the line.) People in South Surrey and Delta have already been complaining about this, but in the bigger picture, it makes sense as the 600-buses could only run on a half-hour to 45-minute frequency.

Once the airport fee is added, a one-way trip to YVR will cost $6.25 to $7.50 per person. For single travellers, that's not too bad considering the cost of similar metro connections to airports in other cities. It easily costs $30+ for a taxi ride to the airport, or if you're staying in a hotel downtown, the Airporter bus costs $13.50. Families will still opt for taxis.

Just barely... the only time I've even been on the Millenium route was when I accidentally took a Millenium train instead of an Expo train and went a couple stops the wrong way. :p

Wow, I can't believe there are that many people with enough free time to wait around for a few hours to ride on the new train...

I haven't even stepped foot onto any millenium line stations let alone been on there for a ride :haha:

LOL same. When that line opened I said I would check it out for the hell of it. Now years later not only have I not set foot onto that line but have yet to even step onto anything transit whatsoever. I want to check out the new line but chances are I probably won't haha.

No not really, if they somehow managed to connect the Canada Line to the regular Expo/Mill. then maybe yes.

No, actually 2012 now.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...s-delayed.html

I do not even want to imagine how packed those things will be during rush hour when everybody is scrambling to go home, especially fridays. It will be like Hong Kong, but with less people.

train running today?

should go check it out

it's running ... just not free (standard fare rules apply)
it's also running on regular hrs now ... it opened this morning at 4:50am

[QUOTE=HachiSix;6552606]No not really, if they somehow managed to connect the Canada Line to the regular Expo/Mill. then maybe yes.

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lol but they are walking distancing away..from waterfront isnt it?

[QUOTE=Durrann1984;6553010]I meant before the end lol. Like at Broadway or Nanaimo or something in that area. It would go a long way in making our transit system similar to the ones in HK/TW etc...

i know we keep on talking bout olympics and everyones talkn about olympic this or olympic that

but i just wanna add OLYMPICS
is gonna be currrazzy

rush hour now...is even pretty bad

we're gonna get raped
with the whole world coming here

on the skytrain its like ur gonna have a big black dude on ur right and a big tall swede on your left..

If they made it free for a week or two, then it wouldn't have been such a gong show.

There were TONS of asian seniors - the ones that push and shove whenever there is something offered for free.

more like Jan 2012

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertai...289/story.html

what time do the trains stop running at? 1:30?

you're not the only one ;) :thumbsup:

What about those who work at the airport though? it would SUCK to have to pay the increased add fare every trip. unless they allow those with monthly passes/fare savers to go without the add fare.

[QUOTE=HachiSix;6553020]Not possible, been discussed earlier in this thread that they're completely different train systems.

I think they still need to keep the 98 b-line running though.

^
but they don't need to overlap. They just need to connect at some point in the middle. Sort of like Waterfront connects both Expo and Canada Line. Just that you need to switch trains.

^ you can do it the ghetto way right now and get off and take the bus to cambie

yeah x1

so is there an added cost to use the Canada Line with the U-Pass?

lol.. i think our upass is going to cost more. Probably sonething like $100 next year or something. I'm not sure, but I won't be surprise if our upass fee increases.

i hopped on with my upass today.

when they start charging to go to yvr, then yes.