Cariad Heather Keigher·Oct 3, 2024What decided the Skytrain line colours?This post has been sitting with me for a long while: why do the three SkyTrain lines have the colours they have today?
Cariad Heather Keigher·Oct 2, 2024The Successor to the Mark I SkyTrainAfter SkyTrain was extended to Scott Road in 1991 and plans were put in place to extend it to the Expo Line’s current terminus, King…
Cariad Heather Keigher·Oct 1, 2024Downtown Vancouver’s railwayIf you find yourself wandering in and around Chinatown and Gastown, you might notice an alleyway that there is an alleyway that goes on an…
Cariad Heather Keigher·Sep 14, 2024The History of New Westminster StationFor those who use New Westminster Station on the regular, it’s a place you either pass through, you get off to see a movie, or you catch a…
Cariad Heather Keigher·Sep 14, 2024The other Royal visit to train 014 and SkyTrain’s influence abroadIn 1986, during Expo ’86, King Charles III (then Prince) and his then wife, Princess Diana paid a visit to Patterson Station in Burnaby to…
Cariad Heather Keigher·Sep 13, 2024Ghosts: Connaught HillWhen riding down the Expo Line from Edmonds to 22nd Street, one may notice that it is a rather lengthy ride. At nearly 2 KM, it’s nowhere…
Cariad Heather Keigher·Sep 11, 2024Commercial-Broadway could have been Clark-Broadway?The intersection of Commercial Drive and Broadway is today a major interchange station between SkyTrain’s Millennium and Expo lines, and…
Cariad Heather Keigher·Sep 11, 2024Gilmore is the Oldest Original Millennium Line StationIf you were to pull up information about the Millennium Line, you’d soon come across its opening date of January 7th, 2002. With that…
Cariad Heather Keigher·Sep 11, 2024Collingwood and Central ParkIn today’s modern Vancouver, the section between Joyce-Collingwood and Patterson stations on the Expo Line is often seen as a relatively…
Domenique Richard·Apr 5, 2023Long Blog 1 — Is Public Transit Better in the East?Buses come every 30 minutes to an hour and the nearest SkyTrain station is a 15-minute drive away, not even within walking distance. It’s…
