Transit in Canada

Vancouver has a system called TRANSLINK, which consists of busses, Skytrains, and Seabusses. The Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (GVTA) was created by the BC legislature in 1998. As of April 1st, 1999, the name was changed to TRANSLINK. TRANSLINK does the planning, service levels, budgets, and financing of subsidiary companies and transportation programs in Vancouver. Coast Mountain BusLink operates the Busses. They have a total of about 920 busses, which include diesel busses, natural gas powered busses, Ballard fuel cell powered buses, and trolley busses. SkyTrains travel through Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, and Surrey. There are 20 stations with 16 elevated stations and 4 at street level. The Skytrain Stations are linked with bus routes and Seabus Stations. Seabusses are ferries that link Vancouver with the North Shore. The ferries have a capacity of 400 passengers. Another Transit System is West Coast Express, which connects little communities with Downtown Vancouver. It seams to be similar to GO Transit.

Other cities have public Transit Systems but these are the only cities with Subways (or Skytrains in Vancouver's case).

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