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How TransLink is improving customer service over the next 5 years

TransLink’s new Customer Experience Action Plan includes 40 major projects and initiatives to better serve the changing needs of customers over the…


Customers with backpacks boarding the bus at Surrey Central Station

This is your essential guide to riding transit as a post-secondary student

New semester, new classes, new instructors and new classmates, but still the same transit you've come to rely on. We're here to support you in your…


A SeaBus covered in Indigenous art is seen on the water between a water salute by two nearby Vancouver Fire Department boats.

TransLink’s 2021 Year in Photos

As we wrap up the year, it's time to take a look back and reflect on some of the most memorable TransLink moments and initiatives of 2021. The…


The ribbon cutting at the opening of the Evergreen Extension

Evergreen Extension celebrates its fifth anniversary

On December 2, we celebrate the five-year anniversary of the Evergreen Extension, which took the SkyTrain's Millennium Line into Port Moody and…


Paula Themmen and Layla Robson

How transit has been a live classroom for these engineering students

To solve problems. That's the job description for an engineer. And both Layla Robson and Paula Themmen have strong ambitions to solve a huge problem…


5 tips for a safe and spooktacular Halloween on transit from Transit Police

5 tips for a safe and spooktacular Halloween on transit from Transit Police

Calling all witches and warlocks, ghosts and goblins, SkyTrains, bus drivers, and Compass Cards alike. Whether you're going for the scariest costume…


Celina taps her Compass Card on the faregate to enter Olympic Village Station

Celina taps into her community thanks to transit

Celina couldn't get a driver's license when she was younger and there wasn't public transit in the small town she grew up in. Hearing that, you…


TransLink Staff Picks: Zach

Welcome to TransLink Staff Picks! Here on The Buzzer we’re always trying to give our readers ideas for destinations and daytrips to take while using…


SkyTrain Purist or Marathoner: What type of commuter are you?

Welcome to the poll series, this is where we pick your brains on all transit related topics. Leave an answer to our poll at the bottom of this…


TransLink Staff Picks: Greg

Welcome to TransLink Staff Picks! Here on The Buzzer we’re always trying to give our readers ideas for destinations and daytrips to take while using…


TransLink Staff Picks: Stefanus

Welcome to TransLink Staff Picks! Here on The Buzzer we're always trying to give our readers ideas for destinations and daytrips to take while using…


99 UBC B-Line destination sign

Back Issues: The 99 B-Line launches on Sept. 3, 1996

The Buzzer has been published for more than 100 years! It’s one of the oldest publications in Metro Vancouver. In Back Issues, we comb through our…


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Back to transit: Everything you need to know about returning to class

That first day back in class is always nerve-racking. Will you like your classmates? Is your instructor going to be fair? How will you find your…


The Mark II Mockup from the front of the train.

Back Issues: BC Transit at the PNE Fair 30 years ago

The Mark II model under construction. The Buzzer has been published for more than 100 years! It’s one of the oldest publications in Metro Vancouver.…


Two customers wearing masks while waiting for transit

Head back to school with these Fall Service Changes

Fall is synonymous with sweater weather, pumpkin spice everything, and of course, returning back to school. Historically, September is one of the…


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