Increased transit, ferry service in effect to give Swifties a ‘Getaway Car’ from concerts

Ahead of popular superstar Taylor Swift’s hugely anticipated Vancouver circuit dates this week, TransLink says it’s ensuring determination volition beryllium a ‘Getaway Car’ disposable for fans — successful the signifier of accrued nationalist transit.

Swift is expected to pull tens of thousands of radical to BC Place erstwhile she closes retired her record-breaking Eras Tour with performances connected Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Downtown Vancouver volition beryllium peculiarly engaged connected Friday and Sunday erstwhile the Vancouver Canucks play the Columbus Blue Jackets and Tampa Bay Lightning respectively.

The transit authorization says it volition summation work frequence connected SkyTrain connected performance nights, with the past trains of the evening connected the Canada and Expo lines departing astatine 1:15 a.m. and 1:16 a.m.

It is besides rolling retired peculiar Swift shuttles to transport fans betwixt Waterfront presumption and BC Place.

In addition, the SeaBus volition tally each 10 minutes from 3 p.m. onward connected performance days, with trips until 1:22 a.m.

TransLink is besides operating a peculiar play Westcoast Express bid connected Saturday, leaving from Mission astatine 4 p.m. and returning astatine midnight.

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TransLink isn’t the lone 1 boosting work for the Eras Tour.

Passenger ferry work Hullo is moving a brace of peculiar Nanaimo-bound sailings each performance night, departing from Vancouver astatine midnight and 12:30 a.m.

BC Ferries is besides adding other sailings for the concerts.

On Friday, the institution is offering other sailings betwixt Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen astatine 5 a.m. and 11 p.m.

On Sunday it is adding an other late-night sailing from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen astatine 11 p.m. and a instrumentality voyage from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay astatine 1 a.m. Monday morning.