Results of feasibility study on late-night weekend SkyTrain service coming soon, says TransLink CEO

TransLink says the results of a feasibility study on late-night weekend SkyTrain service should be available within a few months.

The study was first announced about a year and a half ago.

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CEO Kevin Desmond says TransLink has been doing technical work to see what it would take to bring late-night service to Metro Vancouver. The CEO expects those results by midsummer.

“That work is ongoing, and I would expect that sometime within the next … three months that we would be talking about it in public, the results of that work,” he said.

However, Desmond adds that 24-7 rapid transit service is not a fact of life in many major cities.

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“We do all of our maintenance overnight on the system and we have very, very few hours seven days a week to perform that maintenance,” he explained.

Desmond added the Metro Vancouver system wasn’t built or designed for round-the-clock service as it has no secondary tracks.