August 18, 2021
Have your ticket for the 2021 PNE Fair, Aug. 21 to Sept. 6? Take transit there
Whether it’s sports games, concerts or a night out, no matter the event, we’re here to take you to the people and places you love, and back home…
By Allen Tung
August 12, 2021
This is how the mobile vaccine bus works
We’ve partnered with Fraser Health to roll out the Mobile Vaccine Bus to make it as easy as possible for people to get their COVID-19 vaccine. The…
By Allen Tung
August 5, 2021
Cycle to Mount Pleasant and use the bike valet, Aug. 7-8 and 14-15
The restart is here and we couldn’t be more excited to help you reconnect with the people and places you love — whether that's by transit, cycling or…
By Allen Tung
June 29, 2021
This is where you should go next on your B.C. road trip
Road trips to B.C.'s interior are popular during the summer months, whether it's to camp, hike, or visit a vineyard in the the Okanagan — the…
By Allen Tung
May 21, 2021
The windfalls of knowing a second language
Among second-generation Canadians, it’s common to not have a strong command of their mother tongue growing up — but not Albert Lau. Although he’s…
By Allen Tung
May 14, 2021
Transit was there for Parm, now she’s here for transit
Parm Grewal fondly remembers taking transit as a student and newcomer to Metro Vancouver. The 8 Fraser / Downtown bus was her ride to groceries.…
By Allen Tung
April 30, 2021
VIDEO: TransLink to provide shuttles to vaccination sites for vulnerable community groups
TransLink is partnering with Fraser Health to launch a vaccine shuttle program to help people facing transportation challenges accessing their…
By Allen Tung
April 16, 2021
How Transport 2021 transformed the region and Transport 2050 will too
It's 1993. Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" spent nine weeks atop Billboard's Hot 100. The film Jurassic Park grossed nearly $1 billion…
By Allen Tung
April 9, 2021
The SkyBridge, one of the world’s longest transit-only bridges (PHOTOS)
Ride the SkyTrain between Columbia and Scott Road Stations and you’re treated to amazing views of the Fraser River (and the iconic Pattullo Bridge…
By Allen Tung
April 9, 2021
Links & Tidbits: new escalators at Waterfront, transit priority signal at Metrotown and more!
Links & Tidbits is our semi-regular roundup of interesting fodder about transportation and TransLink from the last few weeks or so. If you have…
By Allen Tung
March 3, 2021
Pedals for the People program cycles community forward
What we’ve learned in the last year or so is just how important being part of the community is. For Linda Wilson, it’s having a bicycle to buy…
By Allen Tung
February 11, 2021
Celebrating Lunar New Year: one perspective
Family and tradition. Those are the pillars for Lunar New Year, no matter where you’re celebrating and who’s celebrating. In North America,…
By Allen Tung
December 14, 2020
Reindeer Bus, explained
Like the Vancouver Christmas Market, Bright Nights at Stanley Park, and VanDusen Festival of Lights — the Reindeer Bus is a Metro Vancouver holiday…
By Allen Tung
November 5, 2020
Experience Lumiere — an interactive art installation in Vancouver’s West End, Nov. 5–30
New this year is Prismatica — made up of countless colourful giant prisms where visitors can walk through and observe city life in every colour of…
By Allen Tung
October 15, 2020
What you can do if you forget something on transit
We all know that that sinking feeling knowing you forgotten something and frantically trying to remember where you might have forgotten it. And of…
By Allen Tung