'Onerous,' but AirCare to rise Final Edition

Yesterday also saw the official notification to TransLink that the agreement with the province on the SkyTrain extension had been ratified by Victoria. That agreement commits TransLink to pay $650 million for SkyTrain on the completion of the link to Coquitlam or 2005 (whichever is later). In additi...

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Published inProvince (Vancouver, B.C.)
Main Author Frank Luba, Lower Mainland Reporter
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver, B.C Postmedia Network Inc 29.07.1999
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Summary:Yesterday also saw the official notification to TransLink that the agreement with the province on the SkyTrain extension had been ratified by Victoria. That agreement commits TransLink to pay $650 million for SkyTrain on the completion of the link to Coquitlam or 2005 (whichever is later). In addition to approving the AirCare increase, the TransLink board yesterday approved spending on everything from 18 replacement buses at a cut-rate $6,895,500 to five capital projects at a cost of $3.5 million to a $40,000 trial run of a bus service that will extend the hours of the West Coast Express commuter.