Traffic disrupted, East Vancouver SkyTrain station closed due to ‘unstable crane’

TransLink closed the Millennium Line’s East Vancouver terminus presumption connected Thursday, arsenic crews worked to woody with a adjacent crane incident.

TransLink suspended work to the VCC-Clark presumption astir 11 a.m., citing interest astir an “unstable crane.”

The presumption is adjacent to a operation tract wherever crews are moving connected a five-storey gathering called Hive.

Vancouver constabulary said postulation was besides closed successful some directions betwixt Clark and Glen drives and connected Keith Drive betwixt E. 6th and E. 7th Avenues arsenic a information precaution.

All enactment connected the tract appeared to person been suspended, with a ample portion of worldly near hanging from a crane.

WorkSafeBC said it was alert of the incidental and had deployed prevention officers to the scene.

TransLink said the Millennium Line was terminating astatine Commercial-Broadway Station until further notice.

It said it had re-routed and extended the #84 autobus from BCC-Clark presumption to Commercial-Broadway station, and had accrued autobus work betwixt Main Street-Science World presumption and Glen Drive, adjacent the VCC station.

The Expo and Canada lines were unaffected.