March 28, 2024

Port Mann bridge fares well on icy morning

It's suffered from some pretty bad press in it's first few weeks of operation. But while the rest of Metro Vancouver was slipping and sliding this morning, everything was okay on the new Port Mann bridge. "The commute this morning when just fine. No problems, even though we saw slippery conditions reported elsewhere throughout the lower mainland. … [Read more...]

2013 brings hike in transit fares

Happy New Year! Transit fares are going up. Adult one and two-zone fares will be twenty five cents more,  and three zones will cost you an additional fifty cents. For a monthly pass, one-zone is up ten dollars to 91 dollars, a two-zone pass costs 124 dollars, 14 dollars extra, and those needing a three zone pass will have to shell out 170 … [Read more...]

Transit fares will climb January first

Fares for buses, Skytrain, and West Coast Express are going up as of January first next year. Translink's Derek Zabel says they expect to raise 32-million dollars with the fare hikes. "We are going up two-percent per year and this is something that was set by the Commissioner that we are allowed to raise Transit fares by two-percent per year so we … [Read more...]

Transportation Minister promises action on unpaid fares

  The Transportation Minister suggests legislative changes may be coming to deal with the problem of unpaid transit tickets. Blair Lekstrom says he's working on the problem and is looking at all options including legislative change, "What I can assure the public is, that it makes very little sense, I think, to anybody to have the ability … [Read more...]

Reduced fares experiment “inconclusive”

Looks like you won't be getting another break on fares to travel over the Golden Ears Bridge for awhile. The results of an experiment with lower fares are in. The hope was Translink would attract more people to the new bridge during off peak times, in the evenings and on weekends.  Fares were lowered by 30 percent during those times in April … [Read more...]