Flyer Filler

This is just one of those random shots tossed in to keep the blog afloat. 
The title comes from the bus maker, New Flyer.
Judging from the leaves on the trees it was taken a while back.
I never claimed to be current.

W. Hastings St. @ Seymour St.

Loop

The UBC loop was quiet on this summer evening.

With students back on campus this scene will be considerably more lively.

60' Trolley Bus

I'm not one for trying to take pictures on public transit 

and I don't usually sit at the back of the bus.

But for a few minutes on a Monday night I had a whole articulated bus to myself (and a driver). 
We call them 'arctics'. In Britain I think they're called 'bendy buses'. 

Good Job!

On May 31 Angus McIntyre retired after 41 years as a Vancouver Bus driver.

The Carnival Band got the deets on his last run and went up to play for him at the Nanaimo Skytrain Station loop.

Angus started his career driving the Brills and on his last official day he brought two of the Brills out of retirement.

He and two buses full of his colleagues and passengers who have ridden with him for years came along on the route he drove for the past 20 years.

The Toonerville Trolley

Not exactly. But I just don't get the chance to type Toonerville Trolley nearly often enough. The story is quite comical however.

As an advocate for improved public transit it grieves me to criticize the Olympic Line.

This rail line has existed, more or less, forever. On summer weekends a vintage Vancouver tram was operated by volunteers between Science World to the entrance to Granville Island.

The powers that be have grand plans to eventually extend the line to run all the way to Stanley Park as part of our transit network. In the meantime it was decided to operate a demonstration line during the Winter Olympics.

What we have is a five or six minute 2 km ride. It would probably be quicker but one train has to pull off and stop to let the other pass.

The two streetcars, built by Canada's own Bombardier (they're really fancy), are on loan and were shipped to Vancouver from Brussels and will be shipped back again. The old section of track was pulled up and the wooden ties were replaced with concrete sleepers.

Cost: $8,000,000.00

You have to laugh or you'd cry

Overhead

Trolley wires at the Marine Dr./Canada Line loop.

We're still rummaging at the bottom of the photo barrel.