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Traffic disrupted, East Vancouver SkyTrain station closed due to ‘unstable crane’

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East Vancouver street closed and SkyTrain disrupted by unstable crane
A busy street in East Vancouver has been shut down, and SkyTrain disrupted because of a problem with a crane at a construction site. The site is at East 6th near Clark Drive, near the East Van Cross, where crews are working on a 5-storey building.

TransLink closed the Millennium Line’s East Vancouver terminus station on Thursday, as crews worked to deal with a nearby crane incident.

TransLink suspended service to the VCC-Clark station around 11 a.m., citing concern about an “unstable crane.”

The station is next to a construction site where crews are working on a five-storey building called Hive.

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Vancouver police said traffic was also closed in both directions between Clark and Glen drives and on Keith Drive between E. 6th and E. 7th Avenues as a safety precaution.

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All activity on the site appeared to have been suspended, with a large piece of material left hanging from a crane.

WorkSafeBC said it was aware of the incident and had deployed prevention officers to the scene.

TransLink said the Millennium Line was terminating at Commercial-Broadway Station until further notice.

It said it had re-routed and extended the #84 bus from BCC-Clark station to Commercial-Broadway station, and had increased bus service between Main Street-Science World station and Glen Drive, near the VCC station.

The Expo and Canada lines were unaffected.

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