skytrain
Vancouver’s SkyTrain is now Bitcoin-powered
January 5, 2026By: Ashi, senior writer for imaginary infrastructure In a move described by aides as “inevitable, visionary, and definitely not a parody of governance,” mayor Ken Sim announced Thursday that Vancouver’s SkyTrain system is soon to be powered entirely by Bitcoin. Not metaphorically. Not financially, even. The trains, he says, will now run on pure belief. Sim, a self-described financial expert, takes his job as the city’s unofficial Bitcoin mascot rather seriously. In fact, this long-time evangelist for crypto solutions to non-crypto problems has previously appeared on at least seven YouTube channels dedicated to Bitcoin, spoken at the Virgo Crypto Summit,…
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What Grinds our Gears: Train to Braid
December 20, 2025By: Nuha Maisara, SFU Student Do you ever switch trains at Columbia, only to see the wait time for the next Production-Way line is . . . 15 minutes? And of course, we cannot forget the growing mob of similarly…
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2025 song of the summer shortlist
June 25, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer and Mason Mattu, Humour Editor It’s June, and the vibes are off. We’re in a climate apocalypse, the billionaires are feeling victimized, the aux cord is haunted, and we still don’t have a song of…
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Bright-er Side: The atmospheric experience of the SkyTrain
July 16, 2024By: Samuel Akhibi, SFU Student Cars and buses pale in comparison to the excitement of taking the SkyTrain. Cars and buses are limited to ground-level views within a congested traffic system. The SkyTrain, on the other hand, offers comfy and…
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Everyone hates the stairwell detour at Commercial-Broadway
May 22, 2024By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer If you’re a regular SkyTrain-goer in Vancouver, chances are you’re no stranger to being outrageously inconvenienced. Now, TransLink wants us to use an out-of-the-way stairwell that’s narrower than the footing of a tightrope. It couldn’t…
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Local guy sprints to catch the SkyTrain, knowing damn well the next one arrives in two minutes
June 21, 2023By: Hailey Miller, SFU Student We’ve all seen him — that one guy who causes a scene at the SkyTrain station. The guy who appears out of nowhere and leaps up the escalator two steps at a time. Like a…
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Commuting outside of Metro Vancouver sucks
June 5, 2023By: Kelly Chia, Editor-in-Chief Having lived in Maple Ridge for three years, I know firsthand how inconsistent buses outside the Metro Vancouver area are. To this day, transiting to where I lived is still an awful affair of waiting for…
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The Skytrain’s oldest track being revitalized with $35-million
May 26, 2023By: Eden Chipperfield, News Writer The Expo Line is receiving a $35-million upgrade. It is the oldest track in Vancouver’s Skytrain system, initially constructed for the 1986 Vancouver Expo. The update is funded half by the federal government, and half…
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TransLink is electrifying their bus routes
March 17, 2023By: Nercya Kalino, Staff Writer At the beginning of 2022, TransLink released a Climate Action Strategy. A message from the chief executive officer Kevin Quinn stated, “It’s our responsibility, as the backbone of Metro Vancouver’s sustainable transportation system, to do everything…
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What Grinds Our Gears: SFU students aren’t eligible for a U-Pass during a semester off
June 28, 2022By Luke Faulks, Opinions Editor You know what’s cool? The U-Pass system. Through SFU, we’ve got unlimited access to the Lower Mainland’s sprawling bus, SkyTrain, Seabus, and gondola (c’mon folks) network. You know what’s less cool? Revoking that access when students…
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