October busiest month ever on metro transit

If you noticed more people riding the bus or SkyTrain last month, you were correct.

October was the busiest month in TransLink history with more 39.65 million boardings, which smashed the previous record of 39.2 million boardings set in February 2010, when Vancouver was hosting the Winter Olympics.

October’s total ridership — for bus, SkyTrain, HandyDart, SeaBus and West Coast Express — was up 9.3 per cent over October 2017.

“At TransLink our focus is on delivering transit-service improvements for our customers through the Mayors’ 10-Year Vision,” said TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond. “It’s great to see this kind of ridership growth, one sign that customers are responding to better transit service right across the region.”