What’s wrong with.. Joyce, Main Street, Stadium, Sperling, Brighouse etc… by themselves?

The one thing this system needs is one standard look. I know the first part opened in 85, I remember taking it then… however, over the years the design changes have never occurred simultaneously so SkyTrain looks like a gypsy caravan.

We are one of the only systems (compared to the Metro in Montreal for instance) that does not have one standard colour theme across the board. It looked so clean at Expo because everything was one in the same — should have left it like that.

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It is awesome to read these comments because I just submitted some of the same feedback to TransLink in a survey re: platform numbers at Waterfront, and updating the train announcements.

Another tip I had was to fix the references to the Canada Line. Either it is part of the SkyTrain system or not.

At the airport and Pacific Centre they refer to it as the Canada Line which is confusing for tourists if they are referred to take the “SkyTrain” to the airport.

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Here’s the answer from SkyTrain.

An update to the on-train announcements is in the works, but won’t be ready on the 7th — it will likely be updated progressively through the month of September. The new voice messages have to be updated to each of the 110 (and counting) radio units on the train, which takes some time, and it’s not really an urgent thing that warrants deferring regular maintenance, or incurring a lot of overtime expense. We did not want to introduce it before the 7th, which would probably have added even more confusion to the transition.

We will be adding “Stadium-Chinatown” and “Joyce-Collingwood” at the same time. Again, there will be a mix of new and old messages during the transition. There was a recent upgrade to the radio systems on the Mark I fleet that makes this easier than it was in past years.

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Will the station announcements change on the trains to say the next station is “Commercial – Broadway”? Also, why do we still hear the next station is “Stadium” and “Joyce” instead of “Stadium – Chinatown” and “Joyce – Collingwood”. A fix for this is long overdue.

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I wrote this to another person asking the same question, so hope you don’t mind me repeating it here.

Essentially, TransLink isn’t responsible for most of the signage in the Canada Line stations — we only provide the info about transit connections and safety/security.

The rest of the signage was provided by our concessionaire, InTransit BC, a.k.a. the contracted private partner who built the Canada Line). Here’s what they told me before about the decision to use “Way Out”:

We thought “Way Out” was more descriptive and would be easily understandable by an international ridership.

Anyway, with that all being said, if you would like to register a complaint about the signage, please enter it into our Customer Relations form, so it will be logged in our system and sent to the correct staff at Canada Line!

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