Canada Line service resumes in downtown Vancouver after medical emergency

Commuters in and out of Downtown Vancouver faced major problems Monday evening, after Canada Line service was suspended due to a medical emergency.

TransLink first reported the incident at Vancouver City Centre around 5:15 p.m., and said the situation had been resolved just before 8 p.m.

The transit and transportation agency warned people to expect some residual gaps in service as it restored train frequency and thanked passengers for their patience.

The three-hour outage halted service between Waterfront Station and Olympic Village Station, meaning no service in the downtown core.

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“Canada Line customers travelling Northbound will have to transfer to bus service at Broadway City Hall Station,” TransLink said in an earlier media release.

“Customers starting their journey from one of the closed stations will have to use bus service and transfer to SkyTrain at Broadway City Hall to continue their journey via Canada Line.”

Bus bridges were implemented to shuttle commuters past the affected stations.

The Expo and Millennium SkyTrain lines were unaffected.