A local business provides protective gear for frontline workers
Taylor Gatenby is one of the 75,000+ people who rely on public transit to get to work everyday. She is a cashier at a small local store that…
On the frontlines policing a moving city
Constable Mike Yake with Metro Vancouver Transit Police Metro Vancouver Transit Police Constable Mike Yake expected that he would be working in the…
Nurse coasts her way to work aboard the West Coast Express
Cara Muller is a dialysis nurse. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended our world, challenging us to improvise, adapt and overcome. We're now throwing…
Dispatching the frontlines: a look at “air traffic control” for Metro Vancouver Transit Police
Allison Hansell (front) and Jully Tmana (back) are police communications operators with Metro Vancouver Transit Police. When you travel on transit,…
Keeping the system open and accessible for those who need it
Ryan Mendoza is a people person. Being as hands on as possible and interacting with customers is what he likes best as a SkyTrain Attendant. “You…
Helping those helping us: a bus operator doing what he can
Noor Khan has been a bus operator for 13 years. He's always seen his job as being essential to keeping the region moving but these days he's seeing,…
From one frontline to another: restaurant worker serves up for the community
Ryu is a transit customer who takes the Canada Line to get his place of work. Ryu Fukazawa is an frontline worker that takes transit. He works at a…
Pulling the curtain back on who keeps SkyTrain operating
SkyTrain's Andrew Ferguson, a vehicle technician, and Annaliese Hunt, a control operator. As night descends, SkyTrain’s Operations and Maintenance…
Taking care of kids of frontline workers
Ava Jade works at a nonprofit childcare facility in Kitsilano, making sure that the kids of frontline workers are taken care of. (Photo courtesy of…
Bus operator embraces helping the community out
Bryan Stebbings has been a bus operator with Coast Mountain Bus Company for nearly four years. (Photo: Josh Neufeld Photography) "I'm just so…
“It’s a lifetime of freedom to travel”: Overcoming the fear of SkyTrain
Read the story of how Jon, a teen with autism, overcame the fear of boarding the SkyTrain with some help from Mo Hassabou from BCRTC (SkyTrain) and…
Changing the face of the skilled trades
My parents’ generation grew up with the image of Rosie the Riveter, an iconic skilled mechanic from the World War II era who demonstrated that women…
#IWD2020: Envisioning a fairer world with Tasia
Transit was not the first career that sprung to mind for Tasia Balding, the director of capital and major business Projects at BCRTC, which operates…
#IWD2020: “I wear a duty belt of tools. But the most important tool is my voice.”
Sergeant Cheryl Simpkin looks after the Community Engagement Unit at Transit Police. Her team works with with clients of the vulnerable sector and…
Qiu-ing up for success
Most semesters, Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC)’s Maintenance Engineering team gets some new co-op students. Women filling these positions have…
