Day pass is $9

last I heard on the Canada line was that they are testing the new trains to get the kinks out (ie small electrical fires!)

SImilar to the kerfuffle for the new seabus - it doesnt fit into the dock!!

Public transit makes sense if you're a tourist and you're basing yourself in and around downtown Vancouver. Public transit's great if you live in the actual city of Vancouver. Most of Vancouver's best attractions (Stanley Park, Granville Island, English Bay, etc) are walkable. A car in this case would be a waste of money.

Of course, living and commuting out in Vancouver's suburbia is another matter. Those who bash Vancouver's public transit tend to live out in suburbia where where distances are larger, public transit is less frequent and less convenient (as most suburbs in Vancouver were built upon the assumption that everyone drives cars - they're much more car-reliant).

However, I live downtown Vancouver car free and have been doing so for 3 years now. I would not, however, live car free if I was out in Burnaby, or Surrey, or White Rock, etc.

As a visitor who will be in Vancouver for a few days? A car is definitely not necessary. And even the tourist attractions located outside of downtown - Grouse Mountain, Lynn Canyon, Museum of Anthropology - are easily accessible via public transit.

there are not enough cabs in this town.

Yes you are right. I live downtown but work in Burnaby and find I need a car.

Hmm I dont work much - but live in Burnaby - prob could do without car for day to day but its stuff like skiing and a big shop when you need it . . .

I live right next to a bus loop and Granville Street so I could take the bus but I still have a car? It'd pay me just rent one occasionally and rent out my parking spaces. Hmmmm.

I am a member of the Coop car club too - thats useful and lots in downtown -easy to access Oink.

I'm going to look into this. Thanks.

I wonder if you can get posh cars for dates and things. "Alright darlin, check out my new motor."

Have you looked into zip cars?

Great idea - me thinks

http://www.zipcar.com/webvan/?crcat=...yword=zip+cars

zip and coop are v similar - I think - but dont quote me, that coop have more cars .. .http://www.cooperativeauto.net/

I looked into them but the co-op cars are a lot cheaper.

coop is v simple - on line orientation - ie questions about how to fill the forms in - easy once have read the booklet . Then go and pay them $500 and you get the universal =key etc. . .book online and just fill in form in car - you can choose which type of car and where .

Also you get the $500 back if / when you decide to leave. also also they are linked with other carclubs in other cities!

Full service starts the day after, August 18th...

http://www.yvr.ca/canadaline/

http://www.yvr.ca/latestinfo/index.asp?id=572

Still dont believe em!!

Sorry, but this is an assumption that's made by people who live in Van - as if van is the only place you can do it - and it's bs. We have lived for 4 years in Burnaby without a car - there is the van car coop blocks from our house, and transit is great there. -express bus every 5-10 minutes to DT, buses going south every 10-15 mins. 15 mins walk to skytrain. If you are near a skytrain station or a bus route it's fine. It is not true that all the burbs were built to be car orientated - wrong. The older ones weren't. New West has good transit, as does North & South Burnaby - they were built around the same time as Van, actually.