Major SkyTrain delays this evening due to medical emergency at 29th Avenue Station

UPDATE at 10:00 p.m. – Regular train service has resumed.

EARLIER:

Transit users on SkyTrain’s Expo and Millennium lines this evening should expect major service disruptions due to a severe medical emergency at 29th Avenue Station.

According to Transit Police, no trains are running through a section of the track in East Vancouver. Trains are turning back at Nanaimo Station on the west and Joyce-Collingwood Station on the east; trains are running between Waterfront and Nanaimo stations while inbound trains are turning around at Joyce-Collingwood Station.

A bus bridge of seven buses has been established to connect passengers between Nanaimo and Joyce-Collingwood stations.

It is not known when regular train service will resume.

Major delays and large crowds are being reported all across the Expo and Millennium line systems.

Ya so I’m probably going to be home a little later than usual tonight #skytrain #theylooklikeants #preventasecondemergency #standbehindtheyellowlineplease

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@skytrain hell at Commercial @NEWS1130Traffic @NEWS1130 pic.twitter.com/oNS5Xn674T — SarahandTigsy (@SarahandTigs) October 7, 2015

Skytrain emergency but still staying positive #ALDUBTogetherAgain

— Lolita Se (@6bcbe05cb295433) October 7, 2015

Still busy at Columbia stn now#Skytrain @NEWS1130 pic.twitter.com/00chfomrcy

— SarahandTigsy (@SarahandTigs) October 7, 2015