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In these 2 shots you can see how much the 5 car train overhangs the 80m platform.
Intrusion and other systems had to be modified at each station to allow for the longer trains.
All doors remain on the platform.

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Also from Vancouver, June 2025 YouTube video from StainertheFirst on the Broadway Extension:


Project pic of the first (of 4) Surrey-Langley Extension launching gantries.

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officedweller said:
In these 2 shots you can see how much the 5 car train overhangs the 80m platform.
Intrusion and other systems had to be modified at each station to allow for the longer trains.
All doors remain on the platform.

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I'm glad they did that, Ottawa overhangs the platforms too but we did that from the get go. But originally years ago I read that Translink was planning to do some kind of complicated selective door opening thing for stations where they couldn't extend the platform to something like 120m. The overhang and shorter platform extensions is a much better solution
 
Kyle Campbell said:
Oh, when I saw this article a while ago I thought a few platforms had to be extended for it to work

dailyhive.com

TransLink exploring extending SkyTrain station platforms for longer trains | Urbanized

Longer platforms are being explored for SkyTrain stations to ensure they can meet the needs of growing train lengths and rising ridership.
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Here's the TransLink page. More minor stuff, rather than the platform itself.

Station Access and Safety​

SkyTrain station infrastructure will undergo updates needed to accommodate longer trains and more passengers. These include:

  • adding gap fillers between trains and station platforms to improve accessibility for customers with wheelchairs and mobility devices,
  • relocating staff walkways along the tracks,
  • relocating emergency exit stairs and increasing capacity,
  • relocating track intrusion monitoring system hardware, and
  • adding guideway signage for manual train operations.
All Expo and Millennium Line stations will receive one or more of these upgrades as needed and will be managed in priority sequence, with construction expected to be completed by 2026. Most of this work will not impact transit service or access; however, some interruptions and intermittent nighttime/ weekend work can be expected.
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Infrastructure Upgrades

SkyTrain systems and control centres are being upgraded to service additional and longer trains.
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Dan416 said:
We have a Montreal one, why not a Vancouver one? I think it makes more sense to compare ourselves to Vancouver and Montreal versus Dublin or NYC.
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My thinking was just that Vancouver is so far away from us that it might as well not even exist. I have no connection to a place so distant. At least Montreal is a reasonable distance!
 
Towered said:
My thinking was just that Vancouver is so far away from us that it might as well not even exist. I have no connection to a place so distant. At least Montreal is a reasonable distance!
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I like having a transit thread for our 3rd-largest city. Van may be three timezones away but of course it's close to us culturally and has lots of good urban planning that we can look to as well.

BTW re: you not having a connection - you're missing out! Flights to Vancouver are so cheap these days. Be warned though, most people who head there don't want to come back 😂
 
I'm happy to see a Vancouver transit thread. Surely some of us have lived, worked, or studied in multiple cities across the country and retain a close interest in that city's transit, development, and planning? There's increasing overlap occurring with respect to transit technologies, too. The Montreal REM and Ontario Line are blazing a trail for fully automated metros in our other two main cities while Vancouver's 40-year experience with the technology is inherently interesting. Ottawa's low floor LRT-based metro experience is directly applicable to Toronto, while Calgary and Edmonton's decades of experience running city-spanning high-floor LRTs never seems to get enough attention.
 
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felix123 said:
I like having a transit thread for our 3rd-largest city. Van may be three timezones away but of course it's close to us culturally and has lots of good urban planning that we can look to as well.

BTW re: you not having a connection - you're missing out! Flights to Vancouver are so cheap these days. Be warned though, most people who head there don't want to come back 😂
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I would definitely come back - I despise rain!
 
It's scary how inactive the Vancouver forum is, compared to especially Edmonton and Calgary - CPTDB fills a void - but considering their Broadway extension to Arbutus, and the Surrey-Langley extension from King George are in good progress, and the trolleys...

I love the idea of children's sticker controls at the ends copied from Oslo Copenhagen:
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Also, the Native art these Vs have been equipped with is awesome!! (Translink)

What still bothers me most is how few emergency exits there are along the ROW - You're expected to walk to the next station in the event of a power outage, breakdown, or an assailant on the train:
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I had the same concerns with the cross-passages being closed permanently at Queen's Park and St. Patrick stations.

This was an after-thought for the REM in Montréal, which they've since corrected and adopted better practices.

What really got me thinking was the attack on the Lyon (France) metro where the assailant waited for the doors to close until starting a stabbing-spree:
(Starts at 2:30)

What Macron didn't want you to see... My cousin lived here beside Interpol.

Regardless, as with the REM, I hope Toronto with Line 3 takes emergency exits from elevated guideways into greater account than Vancouver has thus far.

I'd be terrified of being stuck there... Otherwise, I'll continue to use roughly parallel bus services.

Edit: My understanding why the SkyTrain doesn't have emergency access stairwells is because the expectation is ladder-fire trucks will show up to help stranded passengers.
 
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