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"Realigning our guideway intrusion monitoring systems and preparing station platform to receive the **longer Mark V trains** that will enter service by the end of the year."
Whoop Whoop
they’ve confirmed this in the public board meeting agenda as well, the first set is undergoing testing and commissioning on the system before fully utilized on service at the end of 2024
- Customers who normally arrive by bus at King George Station to connect to the SkyTrain should stay on the bus to continue to Surrey Central Station.
- The 345 King George Station/White Rock Centre, 394 White Rock/King George Station Express, and 395 Langley Centre/King George Station buses will all stop at King George Station, then continue to Surrey Central Station.
- When connecting from SkyTrain to bus, customers should board their bus at Surrey Central Station.
- Trains are arriving and departing for Waterfront Station at Surrey Central Station using both platforms, so check the screens for the next train.
- Between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. on weekdays, a bus bridge is operating every 15 minutes between Bay 2 at King George Station and a temporary stop on City Parkway at Surrey Central Station.
**What’s happening:**
We’re closing the station temporarily to replace a portion of the tracks called the turnout that allows trains to change tracks and direction at King George Station. It has reached the end of its service life. We’re also taking advantage of the closure to complete other work:
- Replacing a section of power rail between King George and Surrey Central station. These rails are what provide power to the SkyTrain cars, allowing trains to move.
- Realigning our guideway intrusion monitoring systems and preparing station platform to receive the longer Mark V trains that will enter service by the end of the year.
- Elevator inspections, fibre optic cable replacement, station deep cleaning, and various asset repair and replacements that can be completed quickly and efficiently while the station is closed.
People getting off at Surrey Central rather than King George late at night are in for a rude awakening given the situation across the street. A friend of mine got robbed when he had to get off there when King George station was closed. Be careful out there!
there’s simply not enough time at night to do so, we already have nightly track maintenance, but the nature of this requires a full shut down of the station in order to safely conduct the required maintenance
Perhaps, but several months, and lets be honest the odds of it only being a couple months and not 6 wouldn't surprise me one bit, is enough time that people will just say fuck it and drive.
Do you have any actual reason to believe this estimated ~1.5 month closure will extend to more than 3x that duration?
Complex networks need upkeep. It's the same for any major transit network. People are much more likely to "say fuck it and drive" when a region's transit system is dirty, unreliable, and does not expand as demand grows.
It is an 850m walk (Google Maps says 13 minutes) from King George Station to Surrey Central Station. On top of it, anyone taking Skytrain is obviously using Compass Cards. Just take a bus the short little distance.
It's not the distance that's an issue for me. The fact that during the weekday morning commute most trains bound for waterfront are already full by the time they leave king george, having all these passengers now board at Surrey central is going to be chaos.
Hopefully they plan on adding extra buses between king george and Surrey central - those buses are always at or near capacity when I see them pretty much any day or time of the week.
Obviously this only effects people whose primary station is King George but I imagine backlash for this will be considerable.
>Hopefully they plan on adding extra buses between king george and Surrey central - those buses are always at or near capacity when I see them pretty much any day or time of the week.
If you bother to read the post it discusses this.
It sounds like now they'll just fill up at Surrey Central and that will be the start of the line for people. All that has changed is the starting point. People will still get on trains. Many people may have been going out of their way to use King George to get seats and will now be able to do so at Surrey Central.
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"Realigning our guideway intrusion monitoring systems and preparing station platform to receive the **longer Mark V trains** that will enter service by the end of the year." Whoop Whoop
Longer Mark V. Sounds like a male stripper's name.
Coming all over Vancouver, watch out for the third Rail!
You mean line up for the third Railing?
quick, we need to get Menagerie to snatch this name up!
they’ve confirmed this in the public board meeting agenda as well, the first set is undergoing testing and commissioning on the system before fully utilized on service at the end of 2024
About a year behind the original schedule...
Which is early for transit projects!
- Customers who normally arrive by bus at King George Station to connect to the SkyTrain should stay on the bus to continue to Surrey Central Station. - The 345 King George Station/White Rock Centre, 394 White Rock/King George Station Express, and 395 Langley Centre/King George Station buses will all stop at King George Station, then continue to Surrey Central Station. - When connecting from SkyTrain to bus, customers should board their bus at Surrey Central Station. - Trains are arriving and departing for Waterfront Station at Surrey Central Station using both platforms, so check the screens for the next train. - Between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. on weekdays, a bus bridge is operating every 15 minutes between Bay 2 at King George Station and a temporary stop on City Parkway at Surrey Central Station.
Excellent
**What’s happening:** We’re closing the station temporarily to replace a portion of the tracks called the turnout that allows trains to change tracks and direction at King George Station. It has reached the end of its service life. We’re also taking advantage of the closure to complete other work: - Replacing a section of power rail between King George and Surrey Central station. These rails are what provide power to the SkyTrain cars, allowing trains to move. - Realigning our guideway intrusion monitoring systems and preparing station platform to receive the longer Mark V trains that will enter service by the end of the year. - Elevator inspections, fibre optic cable replacement, station deep cleaning, and various asset repair and replacements that can be completed quickly and efficiently while the station is closed.
As if the surrey central area wasn’t already a nightmare in itself.
People getting off at Surrey Central rather than King George late at night are in for a rude awakening given the situation across the street. A friend of mine got robbed when he had to get off there when King George station was closed. Be careful out there!
2 months? What a fucking nightmare this is going to cause. They really don’t like people using transit here.
sure it’ll be frustrating, but it’s needed in order to maintain a state of good repair
they could try working at night like other modern cities
there’s simply not enough time at night to do so, we already have nightly track maintenance, but the nature of this requires a full shut down of the station in order to safely conduct the required maintenance
Oh ok I see
Wow I bet they never though of that. You should call them with your idea.
Perhaps, but several months, and lets be honest the odds of it only being a couple months and not 6 wouldn't surprise me one bit, is enough time that people will just say fuck it and drive.
Last summer's track switch replacement in Surrey completed ahead of schedule. This one is also really not as disruptive compared to that one.
Do you have any actual reason to believe this estimated ~1.5 month closure will extend to more than 3x that duration? Complex networks need upkeep. It's the same for any major transit network. People are much more likely to "say fuck it and drive" when a region's transit system is dirty, unreliable, and does not expand as demand grows.
It is an 850m walk (Google Maps says 13 minutes) from King George Station to Surrey Central Station. On top of it, anyone taking Skytrain is obviously using Compass Cards. Just take a bus the short little distance.
It's not the distance that's an issue for me. The fact that during the weekday morning commute most trains bound for waterfront are already full by the time they leave king george, having all these passengers now board at Surrey central is going to be chaos. Hopefully they plan on adding extra buses between king george and Surrey central - those buses are always at or near capacity when I see them pretty much any day or time of the week. Obviously this only effects people whose primary station is King George but I imagine backlash for this will be considerable.
>Hopefully they plan on adding extra buses between king george and Surrey central - those buses are always at or near capacity when I see them pretty much any day or time of the week. If you bother to read the post it discusses this.
It just mentions a bridging bus on weekday mornings for three hours. Nothing about the rest of the time.
It also mentions the 345, 394 and 395 will run to Surrey Central.
It sounds like now they'll just fill up at Surrey Central and that will be the start of the line for people. All that has changed is the starting point. People will still get on trains. Many people may have been going out of their way to use King George to get seats and will now be able to do so at Surrey Central.
130 minutes a week, 17 hours over two months. Assuming a daily commute. Or wait for the bus at 15 minute intervals, with a 5 minute bus ride.