Vancouver’s Canada Line opens with free rides

Staff wait for the Canada Line train during a trial run on Friday.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out for the opening of the $2-billion Canada Line in Vancouver and Richmond on Monday afternoon.

Riders will be able to take a free ride between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. PT on the new rapid transit line. The route will provide alternating service between Vancouver and Richmond or the Vancouver International Airport in about 25 minutes — making it Canada’s only rapid transit link from a city core to an airport.

Spokesman Drew Snider is warning people to expect long waits for the free rides, but said TransLink will provide entertainment at some of the stations.

“We’ve got buskers at various stations. I know Bridgeport’s got various entertainers like Rod Stewart and Elvis. There’s going to be line-dancing at the Richmond-Brighouse station,” said Snider, referring to musical impersonators and other talent hired to entertain the crowds.

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V.c » It is totally awesome that we now have a train linking downtown Vancouver to the YVR airport in Richmond. The first city in Canada to have this infrastructure. It is almost worth the cost of the Olympics just to have this. But why-o-why does it have to have such a lame name such as the Canada Line? Of course it goes with the other poorly named Expo Line and Millenium Line skytrains. You tell me where those damn things go, can we not use geographical based names so people know which skytrain goes where?