Faregate system to be installed at SkyTrain station, Vancouver

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Construction has begun to prepare for the installation of the first transit faregates at the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station.

Once in full operation, the faregates will make the system safer and easier for people travelling on Metro Vancouver.

The faregate system is designed to work with the new Compass card, which is a one-card approach to safe and easy travel on Vancouver’s entire transit system.

That includes SkyTrain, West Coast Express and SeaBus. The system will be operational in 2013.

The province is providing $40 million and the Government of Canada is contributing up to $30 million from the Building Canada Fund to support the approximately $100 million in eligible costs for the faregates installation and related station improvements.

The total cost for both the faregates and Compass card projects is approximately $171 million.

All of TransLink’s stations will undergo construction over the next 12 to 18 months, with faregates opening to the public in 2013.

Construction will include electrical upgrades, and the relocation and installation of fare machines and gates.

Transit passengers will use the Compass card to pass through a faregate, which is a four-foot-high, paddle-style gate.

At each station, there will also be faregates that are accessible to people who use wheelchairs, travel with pushchairs or are carrying luggage.

The project is part of the OnTrack program that includes a number of maintenance projects, upgrades and investments taking place along the system during SkyTrain’s 25th anniversary.

Other elements of the program include replacing the running rails and power rails, as well as improving accessibility to the system.

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