Vancouver’s Olympic Line streetcar coming soon!
The Flexity Outlook streetcar that will be loaned to Vancouver
It was announced today that Bombardier Transportation will bring two modern, Flexity Outlook streetcars on loan from Brussels, Belgium to Vancouver for use during the 2010 Olympics. The streetcar demonstration project will run between January 21 to March 21, 2010. The official name of the project is The Olympic Line – Vancouver’s 2010 Streetcar.
The City of Vancouver put up $8.5 million, along with $500,000 from the CHMC (which owns Granville Island), to upgrade a stretch of railway for the modern, low-floor streetcar’s usage.
The Olympic Line will run between Granville Island and the Canada Line Olympic Village Station.
The route between Granville Island and Olympic Village station
7 Responses to “Vancouver’s Olympic Line streetcar coming soon!”
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Greg on September 30th, 2008
That’s some sexy transit hardware.
Chris on September 30th, 2008
Let’s hope that after investing $8.5 million, they fully extend the line so that it’s actually useful.
Sungsu on October 1st, 2008
The $8.5 million include the CMHC contribution.
paul on October 1st, 2008
@ Sungsu. Yes, I believe so.
Also, Bombardier committed $2 million to the project. So that leaves the City’s portion at $6 million.
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Kent on April 7th, 2009
Vancouver should have got Bombardier to build the new transit line from the airport too, not Siemens, then the cars would have been interchangeable with the other skytrain lines.