Canada Line roundup: more pics + video, and Waterfront Station opening info
Canada Line roundup: more pics + video, and Waterfront Station opening info
There are many tidbits about Canada Line coming in today, so I thought I would put them together in one big post.
More photos and video
As the Canada Line continues on, more photos and video are being sent in. Here’s a small gallery from Ron Higgs, and one from Rvie. CTV BC also has a gallery.
Rvie also sent along a musical Canada Line montage video and a video of the North Arm Bridge. There’s also a neat HD video at John Chow’s blog, where he interviews people in the long Waterfront lineup!
And here’s my Flickr pictures from the opening: this is the opening ceremony, and here’s some randoms from opening day.
I’ll add these links to the main photo and video post and the first ride/opening day stories post.
Waterfront Station opening (and Sunday closing) info
Here’s another piece of handy info for early-morning/late-night Canada Line riders accessing Waterfront Station.
While the first Canada Line train leaves Waterfront Station at 4:50 a.m., the main portion of Waterfront Station is closed until 5:30 a.m. (That’s the big red building off Cordova St and the foot of Granville).
So please use the Waterfront Station entrance on the street at Hastings and Granville if you need to ride the Canada Line before 5:30 a.m.!
Similarly, customers for late-night trains on Sundays will have to exit Waterfront Station via Hastings & Granville from 12:15 a.m. (Monday) until closing.
I see that TransLink has finally updated the train information at . It is interesting (though not surprising) that they have chosen to refer to both LRT services as “SkyTrain”. I wonder how much ire this will draw from the train vendors, or from savvy consumers. :)
I note a discrepancy, however: in the tables, the SkyTrain frequencies are listed as Expo, Millennium, Combined, whereas the Canada Line frequences are listed as Combined, YVR, Richmond. The “Combined” column in the latter should be shifted to the end, for consistency.
Also, the “First/Last” tables for SkyTrain are confusing, especially compared to the simple Canada Line one, but that’s been the case for awhile.
-ben
A sign on the door of Waterfront Station telling people how to get to the other entrance would be a great idea.
For folks looking to fill out their stamp book, I heard a
rumour the stamps are hiding at businesses across the street from
the stations.
Richard: I passed your suggestion along, but actually I’ve been told that there’s some challenges to getting a sign up. Cadillac Fairview owns/manages the front building entering Waterfront Station, so we have to work with them for any exterior signage, and that process is still ongoing.
Ben K:
Good eye! I asked the web staff to switch the order of those tables so the “Combined” column is at the end, and it’s been done: check it out.