No More Skytrains until 2009-10

Translink won't be adding any more Skytrain cars into the mix for a couple of years at least.

There will be about 35 new Skytrain cars ready to roll out in 2010, which will give thousands more convenience, and continue to make this city a pinnacle of Green development. A lot of the newer buses are Bio-Fuel or Electric powered from overhead lines as well, with experiments being done with other test buses into alternative energies.

They have added six hundred new buses in the last year and a half, and will add more going forward as well.

There was a $14 billion expansion plan floated earlier this year, to extend services and speed up commuting times in the existing areas by almost 20% by 2020.

There is a plan in place for Translink to make Vancouver and the surrounding areas, such as Langley and Richmond, the most connected city and suburbs out there, but that still doesn't help me accept the sardine can that a trip from Patterson to Stadium at 9:30am can turn into sometimes.

I do trust that the fare increases are going to go somewhere, even though Translink posts record profits while turning up the heat on the prices anyways, and I do think it will lead to better service.

In reality we do have one of the best public transit systems in the entire world, and I do feel proud about that being a Vancouverite, but a person will always want a little bit more....