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Comment on Away today and Monday: back Tuesday, March 16 by Ric

Ric — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:54:23 +0000

When are the Friday fun posts going to resume? I love those.

Comment on Get your transit alerts by text or e-mail! by The Buzzer blog » Reminder: Paralympic Games opening ceremonies, Friday March 12

The Buzzer blog » Reminder: Paralympic Games opening ceremonies, Friday March 12 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:01:17 +0000

[...] the TransLink Twitter account for real-time service updates during the Paralympics! You can also sign up for alerts to be delivered to you via e-mail or text message. See this post for even more ways to get transit [...]

Comment on Downtown Vancouver in 1981 and today by ;-)

;-) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:31:09 +0000

The Sun Tower was repainted as green.

Comment on The last of our 48 new SkyTrain cars has arrived! by ;-)

;-) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:30:27 +0000

The Mark 2 vehicles are 42% longer.

Comment on #5 to stay on detour route until March 21, #17 back to normal today by Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:25:38 +0000

Better yet, run in the opposite direction with the 17 using the Granville Street bridge, the portion going to UBC would effectively be an auxiliary to the 9 and 99 from Broadway-City Hall Station!

The route numbers would definitely need to be changed for this to work. But it would be a little more orderly what with a 14 and 15 crossing the Cambie Street bridge.

Comment on Photos of our extra Olympic buses from David Lam! by keith

keith — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:11:45 +0000

i remeber the old bus graveyard was on scott road long time ago so where would there now graveyard? I notice too we in surrey have some old busses is that all trams spot or they going try restore them

Comment on #5 to stay on detour route until March 21, #17 back to normal today by Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:08:34 +0000

I think it’s a bit silly to have the 17 the way it is. The 17 is really two routes and it’s really confusing that way.

It should be the 17 Oak/Downtown and the 14 UBC/Downtown. Run interlined as it formerly did with the 15, it would make things much less confusing.

Also, I think the planners lucked out being able to route the trolleys from northbound Oak to westbound Broadway and eastbound Broadway to southbound Oak. The only reason why the trolley wires exist to make these turns is because they were put in place to take the out of service trolleys down Oak to 41st.

So in a way, it’s a little interesting to have seen them used creatively in the way they were.

Comment on Behind the scenes with Trolley Overhead by Ric

Ric — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:52:13 +0000

Jhen, to add to my previous question about LEDs if the LEDs in the destination signs burn out are the LEDs replaceable or does the entire destination sign need to be replaced? Also why are some destination signs only particaly working or have flickering LEDs? (Ex 410 Rail instead of 410 Railway)

Comment on Downtown Vancouver in 1981 and today by ericmk

ericmk — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:32:59 +0000

Wow! It looks like over the course of these years, that copper-domed building (I don’t know what building it is, Google Maps says its the Sun Tower!)has changed from its nice copper color to its green petina hue! Or is that just the overall sepia tint of the photo?

Comment on The last of our 48 new SkyTrain cars has arrived! by Ric

Ric — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:57:31 +0000

Why would 6 car mark 2s be to long to fit any platform? Aren’t all the trains the same length?