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CUPE 4500 strike outside TransLink's Burnaby Transit Centre bus depot on January 22, 2024. (Daniel Chai/Daily Hive)
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Separate union for thousands of TransLink bus drivers takes aim at employer

Thousands of bus drivers and other workers are losing wages.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 24, 2024
SkyTrain Expo Line in New Westminster. (Elena_Alex_Ferns/Shutterstock)
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Possible SkyTrain shutdown as early as Monday as Metro Vancouver transit strike ramps up

There is no end in sight to the job action.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 23, 2024
First Nations public art in the 2019-built expansion of SkyTrain Surrey Central Station. (TransLink)
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$2 million budget for public art at all Surrey-Langley SkyTrain stations

Each of the eight new stations will have a public art installation.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 23, 2024
Remnants of the Kitsilano Trestle bridge on Senakw's fourth phase footprint on the east side of Burrard Bridge. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Federal government to create a new National Indigenous Housing Centre

It will be operated by an Indigenous organization.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 23, 2024
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$36 million in new federal housing funding announced for City of Richmond

It will help fast-track over 3,000 homes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 23, 2024
False Creek Ferries
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Ferries in False Creek: Another way to get around during the transit strike

Instead of a False Creek bridge bus ride, and a west-east option.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 23, 2024
TransLink's R4 41st Avenue RapidBus in Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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TransLink bus and SeaBus services could temporarily restart Wednesday

A reprieve from the severe service disruptions due to the strike.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 23, 2024
Buses parked at TransLink's Burnaby Transit Centre bus depot. (Daniel Chai/Daily Hive)
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Union's 25% wage hike demand to end transit strike will cost $250 million: TransLink CEO

"At TransLink, we are facing a fiscal crisis."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 23, 2024
SkyTrain Braid Station. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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No impacts to SkyTrain due to Metro Vancouver transit strike: TransLink

At least for 48 hours through the end of Wednesday.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 22, 2024
Artistic rendering of the new Listel Hotel Vancouver tower at 1300 Robson Street. (Henriquez Partners Architects)
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New hotel and rental housing tower to replace Listel Hotel on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver

It will close in late 2024 to enable the start of construction.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 22, 2024
Uber smartphone app (Lutsenko_Oleksandr/Shutterstock) and Mobi Bike Share (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive).
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How to get around Metro Vancouver during the public transit strike

It's time to get multi-modal.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 22, 2024
UBC bus exchange. (Dialog)
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Some classes moved online at UBC and SFU due to Metro Vancouver public transit strike

Driving instead? There will be parking lot pains.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 22, 2024
TransLink's trolley bus (EB Adventure Photography/Shutterstock) and SeaBus (Shawn.ccf/Shutterstock).
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It's official: TransLink's bus and SeaBus services now shut down due to strike

Expect significant inconveniences with getting around.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 22, 2024
Passengers waiting for a SkyTrain Expo Line train towards downtown Vancouver during peak hours at Commercial-Broadway Station in May 2023. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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SkyTrain union informs workers their solidarity strike could start mid-day Monday

The threat of a systemwide transit strike continues.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 22, 2024
R2 RapidBus serving the North Shore. (TransLink)
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Business groups urge swift action to end TransLink strike uncertainty

"Significant ramifications on our local economy."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 22, 2024
SkyTrain Inlet Centre Station. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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SkyTrain and West Coast Express to operate normally on Monday during transit strike: TransLink

But bus and SeaBus services would be shut down.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 22, 2024
Burrard Station on SkyTrain's Expo Line. (Maclkin Holloway/Shutterstock)
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SkyTrain shutdown possible: Threat of job action spreads across TransLink system

SkyTrain workers will not cross the picket lines of bus supervisors.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 21, 2024
Disney-themed "Magic Plane." (Welshboy2020/Shutterstock)
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Goodbye, magic: WestJet is de-theming its Disney planes

Say goodbye to the "Magic Plane" and "Frozen Plane."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 20, 2024
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