December 10, 2008
Canada Line photos: Vancouver City Centre construction
Vancouver City Centre station will come up right next to the Sears in downtown Vancouver. So, here's the second of three posts about the Canada Line…
December 10, 2008
Fighting spam, Buzzer style
We got a huge wave of Christmas-themed spam comments with single URLs in them yesterday! So unfortunately, from now on, any comment with at least one…
December 10, 2008
U-Pass photo contest winners
Malloreigh Hamilton in one of the winning photos from our U-Pass photo contest. We declared two winners in our U-Pass photo contest a while back, and…
December 9, 2008
Canada Line photos: Yaletown Station construction
Yaletown Station: an illustration of what it will look like when complete! I've been noticing some interest in posts about the Canada Line lately, so…
December 9, 2008
Something neat: the bike-rack rap!
If you haven't seen this already, it is quite possibly the best thing you will see all day. It's a rap on how to use bus bike-racks from TARC, the…
December 8, 2008
Retired trolleys make their way to Mendoza
One of our retired trolleys on a flatbed truck, arriving in Guaymallen, Argentina en route to Mendoza. Thanks to the kindness of Jorge Luis Guevara,…
December 8, 2008
Our 2009 budget and capital plan
The 2009 budget will support many major initiatives that are reaching completion, such as the 48 new SkyTrain cars set to arrive next year. Our 2009…
December 5, 2008
More about the December 29 bus service improvements
This is our biggest service improvement yet: 14.7 million extra trips were added to the Metro Vancouver region! While you can find the full list of…
December 5, 2008
Christmas parade reroutes this weekend
The Canada Line float from last year's Rogers Santa Claus Parade. This year, there will be a Canada Line float and a TransLink bus in the parade! No…
December 5, 2008
The December Buzzer is out today!
Get the latest Buzzer on all our buses, SeaBus, SkyTrain, and West Coast Express today! This issue has all the service changes planned for December…
December 3, 2008
The retired trolleys arrive in Chile!
The retired New Flyer trolleys, being offloaded at the docks in San Antonio, Chile. After 20+ days at sea aboard the ship Wisdom, the retired…
December 2, 2008
Police dogs, text-message crime reporting: SkyTrain ramps up security measures based on new research
Doug Kelsey and Ward Clapham at the press conference, held at Broadway Station today. We held a press conference at Broadway Station today about new…
December 1, 2008
SkyTrain track maintenance on Wed Dec. 3
Late-night Wednesday Surrey SkyTrain travellers, look out! We're doing the last bit of our track maintenance in the Surrey area, which affects…
December 1, 2008
Podcast: the story of the SkyTrain chime
The Buzzer blog podcast is back! This time, I've got the story behind the SkyTrain chime for you to hear. Ian Graham, operations planner for…
November 28, 2008
Profile: the transit fans behind the Trans-Vancouver bus photo archive
Chris Cassidy, George Prior, and David Lam, the photographers behind Trans-Vancouver. (They're wearing orange vests because the docks made us all…
