Our Transport 2050 engagement team and bus will be at community events throughout the summer!
TransLink is creating a new strategy for the next 30 years of transportation called Transport 2050, and we need your help. Find us at community events throughout the region to tell us how you want to move and live! Read more »
Summer is coming and we’re kicking it off with the latest edition of The Buzzer!
Staffer Dwayne Cunningham voices TransLink’s National Indigenous Peoples Day announcement on SkyTrain.
June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day and we’re thrilled to be marking this occasion on SkyTrain with voice announcements.
The voice belongs to Dwayne Cunningham, a TransLink staffer and member of the Katzie First Nation, whose traditional territories are along Fraser River near Port Hammond in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.
Dwayne spent his teenage years living on the Katzie Indian Reserve and remains active in the community today, visiting his extended family at least once a month.
He says Indigenous cultures like the Katzie can feel distant, but there are vibrant communities throughout British Columbia and across Canada – all doing historically interesting and exciting things. Everything from pow wow dances to participating in Native fisheries throughout the summer.
“Indigenous culture can feel distant or other cultures aren’t invited into those places or things, but those doors are open,” says Dwayne. “It’s just do people want to come in?”
“I think National Indigenous Peoples Day might be that opportunity to open that door a little bit and just kind of look in and see what that culture has been about, what it is about and where it’s headed.”
That’s Dwayne’s message to transit riders in the voice announcement.
He invites transit riders to visit translink.ca to see what National Indigenous Peoples Day events are happening in their community and learn how to take transit to get there.
And that’s ultimately what National Indigenous Peoples Day is about – it’s an opportunity to celebrate and learn more about the cultural diversity of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
While these groups have similarities, each group has some distinct differences that make them unique through cultural practice, languages and more.
Dwayne challenges everyone to make a concerted effort to understand where Canada comes from and what Canada even is.
“You often hear people say Canada has no culture of its own or Canadian cuisine isn’t a thing,” he says. “But we just haven’t taken a moment to investigate it.
“Salmon is absolutely British Columbian. That is Native cuisine and that is in my mind Canadian cuisine.
“Hopefully that will spark some pride in the cool nation that we live in.”
The voice announcements play at all Canada Line stations, select Expo and Millennium Line stations, and onboard Expo Line trains travelling between Commercial–Broadway and Main Street–Science World stations through June 22.
Author: Allen Tung
We’re back at it with another week of #MyTransLink. A special place where we share the regions photos as submitted by you – Metro Vancouver’s community, neighbours and visitors. Scroll on down to check out the latest in #MyTransLink.
June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day and Canadians coast to coast will be celebrating the heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding achievements of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples! While these groups have similarities, each group has some distinct differences that make them unique through cultural practice, languages and more.
Between June 16 and 28, there are a myriad National Indigenous Peoples Day events happening throughout Metro Vancouver! We’ve compiled a selection below — transit can get you to these events. Plan your trip using our Trip Planner, and sign up for Transit Alerts and know before you go.
TransLink works, operates and serves on the traditional territories of 46 Coast Salish First Nations within Metro Vancouver.
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location/Venue: Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell Street
Transit: 95 B-Line bus
Event information can be found HERE
Time: 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Location/Venue: Moody Park, 600 8th Street
Transit: near New Westminster Station
Event information can be found HERE
Time: 12:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Location/Venue: 3350 Victoria Drive, Trout Lake Community Centre
Transit: Near Commercial-Broadway Station, near 20 bus
Event information can be found HERE
Host: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: 639 Hornby Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2G3
Transit: Burrard Station
Event information can be found HERE
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location/Venue: Holland Park, 13428 Old Yale Road
Transit: King George Station
Event information can be found HERE
Time: 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location/Venue: Rocky Point Park, 2800 Murray Street
Transit: Moody Centre Station
Event information can be found HERE
Time: 10:50 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location/Venue: SFU Education (EDB 7608), 8888 University Drive, Burnaby , BC V5A 1S6
Transit: 145 SFU bus from Production Way-University Station or 143 SFU bus from Burquitlam Station
Event information can be found HERE
Time: See site for more info
Location/Venue: 200-1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2L7
Transit: Waterfront Station
Event information can be found HERE
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Burnaby Public Library Civic Square, 6100 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby
Transit: Metrotown Station
Event information can be found HERE.
Time: 1:00 p.m. and onwards
Location: Stoney Creek Community School, 2740 Beaverbrook Crescent, and, Edmonds Community School 7651 18th Ave
Transit: Stoney Creek –136 bus from Lougheed Station
Edmonds Community – 123 bus from New Westminster Station
Event information can be found HERE.
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (meet at the Cottonwood office at 5:00 p.m.)
Location/Venue: Rocky Point Park, 2800 Murray Street
Transit: Moody Centre Station
Event information can be found HERE
Time: 6:50 p.m. – 8:20 p.m.
Location: Tommy Douglas Branch, 7311 Kingsway, Burnaby
Transit: 133 bus
Event information can be found HERE.
The upgrades at SkyTrain’s Joyce–Collingwood Station are now complete and not only is there a new, upgraded elevator and escalator to improve passenger access, there’s a colourful public art installation that wraps around the new stationhouse and the nearby bus loop! Read more »
Last year’s Car Free Day on Main Street!
Car Free Day Vancouver is back on June 15, 16 and July 7 and we’ll be there to talk Transport 2050 with you.
Transport 2050 is a new shared regional strategy that will help navigate the next 30 years of transportation in Metro Vancouver!
It’s that time of the week again, where we share the regions photos as submitted by you – Metro Vancouver’s community, neighbours and visitors. #MyTransLink celebrates the beauty of our region through select transit-related shots. Scroll on down to check out the latest in #MyTransLink.
After just one month of engagement, Metro Vancouverites have completed almost 9,000 surveys and shared almost 900 bold and creative ideas for the future.
TransLink is leading the development of Transport 2050, a new long-term transportation strategy for our region. And thousands of you who live, work and play across Metro Vancouver have stepped up to have a say!
Transport 2050 will set out what our region needs to build, do, and provide to meet our transportation needs between now and 2050. And a regional strategy needs regional input, so we’ve launched the largest engagement in our history to ask: What’s important to you? What are your transportation priorities? And, what are your ideas for the future?
After just one month of engagement, Metro Vancouverites have completed almost 9,000 surveys and shared almost 900 bold and creative ideas for the future. Below are some highlights from Phase 1 of engagement but if you haven’t taken part yet – don’t despair! You can participate until September 22. Read more »
Being a SkyTrain Attendant means you’re a jack-of-all-trades. On any given day, you may need to help someone find their destination, assist a customer having a medical issue, or even manually drive the SkyTrain (if needed in extreme weather). The list of situations SkyTrain Attendants may find themselves in is long and often falls into the, ‘and other duties’ portion of the job description.
That’s what SkyTrain Attendant Pat discovered last week when he encountered a distressed raven that trapped itself behind a fenced off area.
During his shift at Holdom Station, Pat heard what he described as a child crying loudly. After analyzing the area, he found a raven mimicking the call for help, and a friend circling around to keep it company.
If you ever find a distressed animal by transit centres and don’t know what to do, we recommend notifying our SkyTrain Attendants or call the Wildlife Rescue Helpline (604-526-7275) with a message detailing what you have observed. This is for the best interests of the animal and you.
In this situation, Pat was able to help. Going beyond the ordinary is just one of the things our SkyTrain Attendants do everyday.
Your friendly neighbourhood SkyTrain Attendants have a broad responsibility to provide all our passengers (feathered or not) with a smooth transit experience. To learn more about what they do, take a look at Cheri’s interview as she talks about her 17+ years dedication to the job.
Clay McMullen, a UBC staffer, is one of close to 48 people participating in TransLink’s vanpool pilot program.
For the last five years, Clay McMullen has been making the stressful, bumper-to-bumper commute between his home in Abbotsford and the University of British Columbia’s Point Grey campus where he works.
The 200 kilometre round trip requires Clay to leave for work at 4:40 a.m. and then leave UBC for home at 3:30 p.m, five days a week.
“Money isn’t the big thing — the big thing is the stress of being behind the wheel,” says Clay.
But since February, the daily three-hour combined commute has gotten a lot easier.
“Two or three, or six of us can share this burden in a vanpool.”
Clay now commutes with six of his coworkers, who live in the Fraser Valley and South of Fraser, as part of a vanpool (a carpool but with vans!), organized by TransLink in partnership with Modo.
He says this small change has been a major boon to his lifestyle.
“Vanpool is good for the environment, good for my stress levels, and good for my wallet.” Read more »
Join us on June 19, 9 a.m., at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Wilson School of Design in Richmond for our Annual General Meeting (AGM)! You can also watch the livestream on Periscope and Facebook.
You’ll hear from speakers about TransLink’s unprecedented year in 2018 and commitments for 2019, including an update on Transport 2050 — our largest public engagement ever.
We welcome questions from everyone at our AGM, so bring them and we’ll do our best to answer them.
Ask away in the comments if you’re watching the livestream. Any questions that we aren’t able to get to will be getting back to you a.s.a.p.
June’s Open Board Meeting will follow at 10 a.m. after a brief break.
When: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 9 a.m.
What: Annual General Meeting and Quarterly Open Board Meeting
Where: Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 5600 Kwantlen Street, Richmond, BC (near Canada Line’s Lansdowne Station)
May 26 – June 1 is National AccessAbility Week – a week dedicated to changing the way we think, talk and act about accessibility and inclusion. TransLink is proud to offer a fully accessible fleet to people with different types of mobility, enabling everyone to travel by bus, SkyTrain, SeaBus, and West Coast Express. Our fleet of vehicles has low floors with ramps and high floors with lifts, and all SkyTrain stations have elevators. It’s all part of our commitment to making transit accessible for as many people as possible. Read more »
While some people dread their Monday morning commute, that was not the case this Monday morning as SeaBus passengers destined for both Downtown and the North Shore were treated to a five-minute whale of a show in the Burrard Inlet. Read more »
Tags: Killer Whale, Orca, SeaBus
Bike to Work Week this spring is May 27 to June 2!
Step up and bike to work, school and everywhere in between during HUB Cycling’s Bike to Work Week, May 27 to June 2! Read more »
Tags: bike to work week, BTWW, cycle, HUB
