SkyTrain's Taylor Swift Era: More Lit Than a Sparkler 🚇✨

The Deets

Swifties, listen up! So, Taylor Swift came to Vancouver, right? And everyone and their momma took the SkyTrain to get there. Like, Stadium-Chinatown Station saw a 116% increase in riders, which is kinda wild. Basically, the SkyTrain was the official getaway car for the Eras Tour, no cap.

But here's the tea: transit in the Lower Mainland is generally up, like, higher than Toronto per capita. South of the Fraser is seeing an 11% increase year over year! But, and this is a big but, now some bus routes are looking mad sus 'cause they're so packed.

Transit advocates are saying we need more bread for public transit. They're also side-eyeing Vancouver for cutting some services to move resources to Surrey, saying it's causing ridership to dip in Vancouver. The province's only committed to operating funds through 2027, and with all this growth, people are worried about long-term funding. Is that kinda shady or is that kinda shady??

And hold up... there's more drama. Some students from Delta Secondary and Sequeam Secondary went camping at Jones Lake and left the place looking like a whole dumpster fire. Like, bags of trash, tarps, the whole shebang. Someone posted a TikTok, and it went viral. Now the school district is investigating this whole sitch. They're low-key disappointed, but some students helped clean up the mess too. Just FYI, the school didn't ok the camping trip, so these kids just did what they wanted.