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Coast Mountain bus drivers are again calling for more transit police on buses in an effort to stem an increase in driver assaults.
Read More →Will improve intercity passenger and freight rail service on the Cascades line. Includes $16.1 million for design, environmental review and construction work to stabilize and improve track structure along the Pacific Northwest Corridor and $15 million for construction of a new, rail access route to the Port of Vancouver.
Read More →The train began as a pilot project in 2009 in preparation for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, but with CBSA reluctant to pay the extra cost of border clearance services late into the night, the service was in limbo.
Read More →Earlier this month, the transportation authority released seven potential designs for expanded transit to the university, using three different technologies: Bus rapid transit, light rail transit and rail rapid transit.
Read More →Just two days into a strike by the faculty association ridership to the university has not decreased, since students make up a large part of the system's ridership.
Read More →Coast Mountain Bus Co., TransLink and the Metro Vancouver bus drivers' union are working together to stop assaults on female bus drivers, by calling for tougher sentences and stronger legislation, and installing cameras, GPS systems and assault alarms on buses.
Read More →At an awards presentation in Scarborough, England, last week, IAP2 honored projects from New South Wales and Logan City, Australia; Vancouver, Canada; Washington D.C. and Phoenix. Vancouver's TransLink won IAP2's Innovation Award, with Metro placing second.
Read More →When the program was rolled out in June, the provincial government didn’t give TransLink the necessary funds — $85.1 million, according to the agency — to back up the expansion.
Read More →Students are selling their subsidized bus passes on such sites as Craigslist to buyers with a slight resemblance to the photo on the pass.
Read More →Company honored by CUTA for exceptional system performance of its intelligent transportation technology on Translink's buses during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C.
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