Canada Line fully open after Richmond shutdown this morning
Perhaps the Canada Line was feeling left out.
After the Expo and Millennium lines experienced two major shutdowns in one week, the Canada Line had its own outage this morning (July 24).
Metro Vancouver's third SkyTrain line lost power south of Marine Drive Station, shutting down its Richmond and airport branches.
#SkyTrain - Canada Line. No power in Richmond/Airport. Bus Bridge being set up to operate YVR to Marine Dr & Rmd/Brighouse to Marine Dr ^CK
— TransLink BC (@TransLink) July 24, 2014
TransLink later announced that power had been restored. (No electrician has been thrown "under the train", at time of writing.)
#SkyTrain - Canada Line power outage has been cleared, we are resuming regular service. Thank you for your patience this morning. ^CK
— TransLink BC (@TransLink) July 24, 2014
And just because the Expo and Millennium lines couldn't let the day go by without a glitch, their ticket machines decided to go cash only for a bit.
#SkyTrain - Expo/Millennium Line ticket vending machines are currently accepting cash only. Technicians are working on the issue. ^CK
— TransLink BC (@TransLink) July 24, 2014
Fortunately, that problem got solved too.
#SkyTrain - Expo/Millennium Lines are once again accepting all forms of payment. ^CK
— TransLink BC (@TransLink) July 24, 2014
Oh, TransLink.
Comments
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400 ppm
Jul 24, 2014 at 10:59am
Kudos to GS on it's excellent reporting of the ongoing Translink fiasco.
Hope it inspires more digging. There's gold waiting to be found for the diligent journalist.
queetz
Jul 24, 2014 at 1:37pm
"Perhaps the Canada Line was feeling left out."
Interestingly enough, if you count that construction mishap (flipped truck carrying a guideway segment) that happened to the Evergreen Line last week, you can pretty much say all rapid transit lines in Metro Vancouver had been jinxed this month...