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Articlesby Alex RomanAugust 11, 2025

TransLink’s MyWork Program Sets New Standard in Operations Innovation

TransLink and its subsidiary Coast Mountain Bus Company along with GIRO is a 2025 Innovative Solutions Award winner in the category of Operational Efficiency.

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A TransLink SkyTrain worker holds up 6 language pins.
Newsby StaffJuly 18, 2025

TransLink’s Frontline Transit Workers Bridge Language Gaps With New Identifier Pins

New language pins help TransLink staff assist riders in 40+ languages, improving accessibility across the transit system.

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Newsby StaffApril 2, 2025

Vancouver’s Coast Mountain Bus Partners to Provide Training to Support Neurodivergent Customers

A new 14-minute training video, entitled “Supporting Your Neurodivergent Passengers,” provides current and new operators with facts, figures, and insights about transit customers who are part of the neurodivergent community.

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NewsOctober 8, 2021

TransLink Implementing Mandatory Vaccination Policy for Employees

The policy applies to all employees of TransLink, Coast Mountain Bus Company, BC Rapid Transit Co., and Transit Police.

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Newsby StaffJune 4, 2018

New Flyer receives CNG bus order from Canada's TransLink

The bus order will support Coast Mountain Bus Company, TransLink's largest operating company, providing over 96% of the region's bus service.

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Newsby StaffNovember 21, 2017

Canada's TransLink places firm order for 106 New Flyer CNG buses

The order was supported by the Federal Gas Tax Fund, through which the Government of Canada provides funding for municipal infrastructure, including public transit. The funds are administered in B.C. by the Union of British Columbia Municipalities.

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Newsby StaffOctober 25, 2012

Fare evasion losses doubled for B.C.’s TransLink

Coast Mountain Bus and TransLink bus drivers recorded unpaid fares 2.5 million times last year. The actual number is expected to be higher. A recent TransLink audit found fare evasion across the system rose 120% from an estimated $6.6 million in losses in 2001 to $14.5 million last year.

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Newsby StaffApril 4, 2012

Man who assaulted Canadian driver gets no jail time

Area bus drivers are said to be "furious" with the ruling.

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ArticlesJanuary 11, 2012

New fare system in 2013 to reshape TransLink police force duties

With a new fare payment system and fare gates slated to be introduced on its SkyTrain rapid transit system in 2013, British Columbia's TransLink is beginning to explore what will become of its effective police force once the new fare system is introduced.

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Newsby StaffNovember 30, 2011

Vancouver drivers push for more police on buses

Coast Mountain bus drivers are again calling for more transit police on buses in an effort to stem an increase in driver assaults.

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