A demonstration light rail line serving Winter Olympic sites in Vancouver was inaugurated on January 21 by the Mayor of Vancouver Mr Gregor Robertson and Mr Raymond Bachant, president of Bombardier Transportation North America. The 1.8km line links Granville Street with Olympic Village station on the Skytrain Canada Line, and will operate 18 hours a day, seven days a week, until March 21.
A demonstration light rail line serving Winter Olympic sites in Vancouver was inaugurated on January 21 by the Mayor of Vancouver Mr Gregor Robertson and Mr Raymond Bachant, president of Bombardier Transportation North America. The 1.8km line links Granville Street with Olympic Village station on the Skytrain Canada Line, and will operate 18 hours a day, seven days a week, until March 21.
Brussels Transport Company (STIB) has loaned two Bombardier Flexity
LRVs to Vancouver to operate the Olympic Line for the duration of the
games.
In the longer-term the line may become part of the City of Vancouver's
proposed Downtown Streetcar network, which would also serve Chinatown
and Gastown.