I use it on a daily because is faster than driving. Is not such a big deal but when there is an issue transit doesn't response fast enough. Last week outrage I was stuck at VCC for an hour and the sky train attend there just told us find another way home withou providing any info on shuttle or anything like that ........

what about that time i got a flat tire or a dead battery or got stuck in the shitty traffic we get all the fucking time.

i wish i could take transit and only got stuck a few times a year for a couple hours.

why is Skytrain so unreliable?

Skytrain was comissioned in 1986. That's almost 30 years of service. It's something to do with the power rails needing replacing. Which they are doing now.

REALITY CHECK: Why is SkyTrain breaking down so frequently?

lol u guys need to go HK & take there metro system, bloody expensive & over charging ppl

a while back it broke twice with in the 1 month back to back, translink is a joke but MTR in hk is bullshit

The HK MTR used to be world class. It is only turning into shxt now because the higher ups are constantly sending their top technical expertise out of the city to do consulting work for other subway lines (even though those contract don't earn them very much money since they need to submit some fairly aggressive bids to get the contract in the first place). To make matter worse, the upper management retards are succumbing to both financial and political pressure from Mainland China, and started buying cheapa$$ Chinese-made replacement parts and trains. Continual ridership at 90%+ of capacity, including 100%+ ridership during peak hours also takes a toll on the hardware.

I, for one, am not at all surprised that MTR, much like a lot of other stuff in HK, has turned into shxt now.

I used to be quite convinced Translink is a total fuck up ......until I read this article and realized it's really the provincial government that has fucked shit up for the lower mainland

so while Translink is crumbling from anaemic funding, ICBC rakes in $600m profits annually, which conveniently goes to the government as general revenue



rest of the article is quite shitty, but here's the sauce anyway
REALITY CHECK: Why is SkyTrain breaking down so frequently?

i dont see why they dont just issue bonds for bridge projects like many areas do for major projects (like china does for its airports, many municipalities do for public works projects)

LOL, so who wants a private transit system now?

My family's 1993 Toyota Camry never had any problems that resulted in us getting stranded. My 1992 Integra was also bulletproof. Japanese cars from the 1990s > any other machine.

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why do they call Skytrain "rapid transit" ??

As far as I know they're one of the slowest in the world.

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Vancouver Skytrain
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Hong Kong MTR
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Shanghai Railway
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Paris RATP
http://servan.free.fr/Paris-rail-map.jpg

London Rail Network
http://www.clarksbury.com/cdl/maps/connect99b.gif

JR Tokyo
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Skytrain issues....AGAIN
 

I think the millennium line loop is a bad design. The problem with this is if millennium line breaks down, they will have to shut down expo line too. This creates jams from 5 different areas. Since the skytrains are getting old, they should just separate the two and build another station at Columbia for a quick fix. Make it so people hop on to another set of tracks instead of sharing the same route from Columbia to waterfront.

I wonder what BC transit is gonna do to compensate the riders :considered:

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when you rely on a combo bus / skytrain it is really hard. getting from downtown to south delta is twice as long as it used to be when the 601/2/3/4 were around. but the bc liberals don't care about the conservative s. delta area, they care about richmond

Thought they would give out free epic fail compass cards for the rider to make their already shitty public transit experience even more shitty

LOL @ everyone complaining about the skytrain. It's been around running for what, 20 years? Rarely has issues like this, but that's what happens when things get old or there are unforseen issues. Hell, in London some of their lines would be down for hours for similar reasons. It's not JUST a skytrain thing... if you don't want to rely on others and machines to get you where you need to go... buy a car. If you can't buy a car... be happy we have at least what we have even if it does have issues once in a while.

TransLink says it's offering riders a free day of transit on BC Day to make up for recent outages.

Cars break down too. People can walk or STFU.

Yeah but well organized public transit should be way more reliable than driving cars.

Trains are immune to traffic jam if they're controlled and maintained properly.

as far as I can see, Skytrain is not even close to being reliable.

paid for by the people driving cars. Thanks translink

At first I thought they were just trolling us all since they used to have free transit days on some holidays, but turns out that was only on Canada day.

In regards to the actual incident:

Human error led to Monday?s SkyTrain shut down: Translink to offer free transit day | Globalnews.ca

Sounds like computer glitches and stuff is all just BS, a worker fucked the grid during routine maintenance.

:notbad: so it's unreliable 5% of the time
“Our trains are reliable 95% of the time, but we know that is little consolation for customers who are delayed for hours when we do have a significant breakdown,”

The weakest part of any system is the squishy meat sack we put in charge of it.

As you said afterwards, 95% reliability which is pretty damn good.

ok wait a sec, what does 95% reliability mean?

does it mean train comes 95% of the time? or train doesn't break down 95% of time?