Escalators

• Expect congestion: TransLink launches Burrard Station escalator replacement

  The work to replace the 35-year-old equipment, which is original to the Expo Line, will begin on Oct. 17, and is expected to take until spring 2024 to complete.

  Traffic

  Oct 7, 2022
  
• Police overstepped when arresting woman for not holding escalator handrail, Supreme Court rules

  Bela Kosoian was in a Metro station in the Montreal suburb of Laval in 2009 when a police officer told her to respect a pictogram with the instruction, “hold the handrail.”

  Canada

  Nov 29, 2019
  
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• Auditor general’s report slams Ontario elevator companies, safety authority

  While deaths and injuries from elevator mishaps are relatively rare, they are occurring more frequently.

  Politics

  Dec 7, 2018