Going to town - 1985 SkyTrain project documentary
 

Did a search, didn't find anything so I hope it's not a repost.

This is 30-minute documentary shot by JEM Productions for B.C. Transit in 1985. It details the construction of the line, the 1984 Main Street demonstration, and the final finished product. You can see the Expo/Millennium Line control room in all its original glory, among many other things.

I thought it was really interesting seeing how the expo line was constructed and to also see what Vancouver was like back in the '80s where I'm sure a lot of us were really young or weren't even born yet.

lol my parents didn't know each other when this came out.

Nice find! Sure makes me feel old though, I remember riding those old school buses... crazy how much has changed!

It's amazing how clean and nice the stations and skytrain cars looked. I mean, where is the graffiti? Where are the nammer thugs? Where are the homeless people buggin' the shit out of people? :D

Two more videos here:

http://buzzer.translink.ca/index.php...deo-from-1983/

Trains run quietly? Not after 25 years :troll:

still quieter than the canada line even after 25 years. what a shame.

cool beans man

yes son.. i didnt know your mother yet

I remember during Expo86, Japan brought over their HSST (their version of the skytrain). It uses magnetic levitation technology for propulsion.; They built a short-track for demo. It was so smooth and quite. We then hopped onto our Skytrain - it was so damn loud and bumpy

it's funny how the video mentions how people in the 70's opted out of the typical north american highway driven city.

well the planners and the people did not foresee a huge jump in immigrants to this city. haha. i think the current highway system in metro vancouver is at over capacity to the max. adding more lanes and building another port mann is not enough. more highways are needed to connect different municipalities directly.

cool video though. i enjoyed that very much.

How does it end? Do they build it or not?

^haha

i sometimes forget how nice of a city vancouver is

I cant believe how noisy that canada line is considering its brand spanking new.... it screeches at every turn, wtf

the highways are probably overcapacity right now but its a fact that building more road will only lead to more traffic, its a positive reinforcement loop

the answer to transportation in big cities is not highways (look at LA), its mass transit (now look at tokyo)

plus roads are much more expensive to maintain, etc, than rapid transit

:lol

when white people were the majority

This is mostly due to the fact that the Canada Line uses traditional electric motors found in any other subway versus LIM on Skytrain, the lack of a bank turn between KingEd and Oakridge doesn't help either. LIM uses the electric motor to stop and accelerate the vehicle.

^ But the engineers probably figured since most of the curvy bits are either underground or away from any major establishments (mostly near the casino, actually, where the noise is really not much of a concern) that the regular trains are cheaper and better way to go at it.

i found that black dildo you normally take with you on your lonely business trips.

i bleached it.

lol nice porn music at the beginning

Pretty awesome looking back of how our city has changed.

there were white people back then!

seeing clips of people actually building the thing makes me appreciate the effort that went into it

Hmmm says that a line is supposed to go to Coquitlam. :failed:

its happening, brah. evergreen line.

I bet they still have the same computers and screens operating the expo line