Light-up maps and announcements on the new SkyTrain cars

The new SkyTrain cars feature maps above the doors with lights indicating your station. Here's a demonstration of the lights on the maps, plus we also cycle through the full list of announcements that the public address system can make. (I've never heard some of the ones at the end!)

Here's the link to the full Buzzer blog post about the interiors: http://buzzer.translink.ca/index.php/2009/05/improved-interiors-for-the-new-s...

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[ChrisEmailify]

Why didn't I hear Metrotown Station?

[buzzerblog]

@ChrisEmailify I only hit record on the camera as Columbia was being announced, so the recording misses all the station announcements from Waterfront to New Westminster.

[classAnnaJo]

who is the person who says these announcements? i know it's recorded, but is it a machine synthesized voice or a real person's?

[buzzerblog]

@classAnnaJo The person who says the announcements is Laureen Regan. Search for her name at the Buzzer blog (buzzer.translink.ca) to find a podcast and more info about her. (YouTube won't let me put in the full URL so this is as close as I can get to writing it!)

[cafewindows]

I wonder why the lighted maps are not on the Canada Line trains.

[buzzerblog]

The Canada Line train design is up to InTransitBC, while the new Mark II design is TransLink's responsibility. I guess they just chose a different design!

[SpiderRider3]

I've never heard the "passengers with valid passes may remain on board for reverse travel" one. And on Christmas Day they should flash the map lights all day.

[iappl27]

Woodland Station was a proposed station on the Millenium Line, I think between Braid and Sapperton. It was never built.

[DangerWrap]

Did anyone notice at Lougheed town Centre station sounds mellow.

[daysofnight]

Woodlands was a proposed station in the early stages of the Millennium Line development. It was supposed to be located between Columbia and Sapperton, right at the eastern portal of the tunnel at the foot of McBride Blvd.

[SkytrainBoy1995]

@gamesfreak699 Woodland which I don't know why they put it ... :P

[randommike2012]

@buzzerblog 0:29 Train to Broadway. Expo Line to Millennium Line To The next station is Terminus station for this train. Would all passengers plase leave the train at at Nanaimo. This train is being taken out of service at 29th ave. Passengers w/ valid passes may remain onboard for return travel.

WTF?

[emberscatsootie]

I like the new trains, however, it often smells like food on them for some reason.

[randomboy3221995]

@buzzerblog well, at least Burrard, Granville, Stadium, Main Street-Science World, Broadway, Nanaimo, and 29th Avenue was well heard properly (Waterfront to Columbia announcement statement). Joyce, Patterson, Metrotown, Royal Oak, Edmonds, 22nd Street and New Westminster was cut off. Jhennifer, I guess you weren't listening properly.

[gamesfreak699]

whats the station on 0:25 (not sapperton; the one after sapperton)