reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody
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Lin Manuel-Miranda has a lot to answer for.
jul 19, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm just wondering if this is Drew Barrymore.
jul 19, 2025, 6:32 pm • 2 0 • view
This will unreasonably upset americans and I'm here for it.
jul 19, 2025, 7:24 pm • 5 0 • view
☹️
jul 23, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I LOVE it. :)
jul 19, 2025, 6:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Less seats for ev.er.e.body. That's ok, there's a leaning place. I'll go there then and rest my body. Now you can't, there's a bike in that space!
jul 19, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolute perfection 10/10!!
jul 20, 2025, 5:09 am • 1 0 • view
Just adding to this thread so I can find it later and watch all the transit videos in the replies.
jul 21, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey, at least you guys get a shiny new bullet train with it. All we get with ours are new medicines for niche maladies...
jul 20, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
Loved @fabcitycrissy.bsky.social’s #AllAboutThatBus youtu.be/tpPJdQTe3_Q?...
jul 20, 2025, 9:56 pm • 11 0 • view
I think it’s fun! Mass transit is something to dance about! Yay!
jul 21, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Finally, a train launch that matches my level of excitement for light rail
jul 20, 2025, 12:28 am • 10 0 • view
Are those #Fluevogs? I think they’re #Fluevogs.
jul 20, 2025, 3:56 am • 5 0 • view
It’s Vancouver, so yes!
jul 20, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
could be gayer but I am 100% into it
jul 19, 2025, 6:49 pm • 14 0 • view
👏👏👏👏👏
jul 23, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Wonder how much that cost the taxpayers?
jul 19, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view
🤪 and why not!
jul 20, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
It’s possible this inspired some satire over here on VI: www.facebook.com/100088043569...
jul 20, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
More of this please!
jul 19, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Shhh don't shame them, I want to see them do the next budget announcement like this
jul 19, 2025, 6:10 pm • 37 0 • view
jul 19, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Fun! I'm sure this will improve uh ... Something
jul 19, 2025, 6:18 pm • 16 0 • view
It makes transit foamers like myself who regard Translink well joyful
jul 20, 2025, 5:16 am • 6 0 • view
And soon enough, these will actually roll under Broadway
jul 19, 2025, 6:12 pm • 10 0 • view
This slaps!
jul 19, 2025, 6:10 pm • 7 0 • view
As someone who isn't really plugged into musical theater, am I supposed to recognize this song from a real musical?
jul 19, 2025, 7:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Answered my own question: apparently this is a parody of a song from Wicked: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAvO...
jul 19, 2025, 11:11 pm • 3 0 • view
In the Mitt Romney days they dragged out some song, and renamed passed a Charlie Card, sort of close
jul 20, 2025, 4:15 am • 1 0 • view
If you liked this, you might like this one too, haha!
jul 19, 2025, 8:27 pm • 23 0 • view
Et l'autobus! 🤣
jul 20, 2025, 3:10 am • 2 0 • view
I. Adore. This.
jul 19, 2025, 6:16 pm • 12 0 • view
I’m obsessed.
jul 20, 2025, 3:05 am • 1 0 • view
@shepf.art , I think you'd appreciate this~
jul 28, 2025, 4:27 am • 1 0 • view
Very much!!
jul 28, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
They did a tap number when they introduced the credit card tap feature vimeo.com/271402054
jul 19, 2025, 8:06 pm • 57 4 • view
I didn't zoom in, but let's hope all those payment cards they showed had fake or obscured card numbers.
jul 20, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
im very off topic here but those gates look uncannily british
jul 21, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I was fully in support of this until the dancing lady sat directly beside a person on a bus full of empty seats
jul 19, 2025, 8:52 pm • 19 0 • view
For those wondering as I was, the first new train is in service on the expo line, with more to come for both the expo line and millennium line www.translink.ca/news/2025/ju...
jul 19, 2025, 7:30 pm • 14 0 • view
If they don’t name the next one Pierre VI we’ll know Translink has a liberal bias.
jul 19, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Guess that was too much sarcasm for Vancouver.
jul 20, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
The next one will be mark VI. All the linear induction skytrains are numbered by mark and Roman numerals. First were Mark I (cars numbered 001 - 199) Mark II married pairs (numbered in 200s and then got 300s) Mark III numbered in 400s for potential eventual overhauls to return numbering sanity.
jul 20, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sold! 😒…uh… pardon my raging ignorance but whose transit system is it? 😳
jul 20, 2025, 4:05 am • 5 0 • view
Vancouver, BC. You’re not alone, I had to look it up.
jul 20, 2025, 5:11 am • 10 0 • view
jul 20, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
There are actually three transit agencies called TransLink in the world. This TransLink, legally called the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority, in Metro Vancouver, BC. Then TransLink in Queensland Australia. And Translink with a small L in Northern Ireland.
jul 20, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Wonderful! = a 'regional government agency' with an EFFECTIVE sense of PR humor .... can we IMPORT that? (I mean, after we get rid of the ReTHUGlican Regime, and people can be happy once more.) 🤞🙏🥳
jul 19, 2025, 7:35 pm • 6 0 • view
This happiness was produced in Canada. We could send it to you but with tariffs it will be 35% less happy when it arrives.
jul 20, 2025, 2:19 am • 17 0 • view
😄 Gosh durn it! Still, at this point even 65% happy would be better than where we're at, sadly.
jul 20, 2025, 9:04 am • 4 0 • view
Seriously. We'll take it!
jul 20, 2025, 6:58 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s on its way. I claim no responsibility if it gets detained at the border for its wold views.
jul 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 20, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
Rode the Skytrain to Expo '86 when it first opened! That was a lot of fun.
jul 20, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
wonderful 😊
jul 20, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
This seems just the right level of gay for Vancouver.
jul 20, 2025, 10:05 pm • 3 0 • view
I’ll pretend you just deleted your comment.
jul 21, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Trains should be run by the city and free. This private company is always crying theyre broke...
jul 19, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0 • view
pubic transit is fetching
jul 20, 2025, 2:43 am • 2 0 • view
Not keeping this in the bag for the completion of the Broadway line seems like an unforced error lol
jul 19, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
You're assuming there won't be a Broadway Subway musical sequel, I mean "Broadway," it practically writes itself! 😂
jul 19, 2025, 9:04 pm • 8 0 • view
"Broadway," plus it's going to be right next door to Emily Carr University; goodness knows they'll recruit some student artists to make it really big.
jul 20, 2025, 10:05 pm • 3 1 • view
ngl this makes me want to ride one
jul 19, 2025, 6:09 pm • 30 0 • view
Very nice! 👍❤️🤗
jul 19, 2025, 7:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Wow that end went a bit Jonathan Larson!
jul 20, 2025, 3:46 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 19, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 0 • view
So wheelchair users have to fight with the bicyclists for space? 👨🦽🚴Otherwise it looks lovely.
jul 20, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
The first is probably the BVG in Berlin, doing this since a decade or so m.youtube.com/watch?v=tlKh... m.youtube.com/watch?v=YEYi... m.youtube.com/watch?v=RTse...
jul 20, 2025, 5:39 am • 19 0 • view
I love her, I love this… I LOVE IT ALL
jul 21, 2025, 5:20 am • 0 0 • view
Canada needs more art. But is this art? 🤔 @artdecider.bsky.social
jul 19, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Art.
jul 23, 2025, 3:38 pm • 5 0 • view
For the love of god no
jul 20, 2025, 8:11 am • 2 0 • view
I want to travel there just to ride the train
jul 19, 2025, 8:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Brilliant
jul 20, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Hairspray meets Wicked meets Starlight Express
jul 19, 2025, 9:22 pm • 6 0 • view
They can shoot a Starlight Express themed one on the West Coast Express.
jul 20, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
What the hell did I just watch, lol
jul 21, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
Ummm did translink pay for this? They just increased fares.
jul 19, 2025, 6:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Marketing and promotion are a crucial part of building ridership (which increases fare base and can help lower future costs), and this looks like relatively low-cost by comparison to a lot of public services advertising.
jul 20, 2025, 10:07 pm • 1 0 • view
We could have this in America but instead we got fascism yay
jul 20, 2025, 1:04 am • 32 0 • view
And the ones in California got cancelled. Make America Shitty Forever is our government motto.
jul 20, 2025, 2:03 am • 13 0 • view
Newsom is suing. www.reuters.com/world/us/cal...
jul 20, 2025, 6:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Florida too.
jul 20, 2025, 2:04 am • 4 0 • view
❤️the dork
jul 19, 2025, 7:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Into it
jul 20, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I ❤️ it!
jul 19, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Where can I buy tickets for the whole Mark V show?
jul 20, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I feel this is right up your alley.
jul 19, 2025, 10:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Meanwhile, in California, this one was made by fans of California High Speed Rail bsky.app/profile/cale...
jul 20, 2025, 8:09 am • 18 0 • view
A fun one!
jul 20, 2025, 11:01 am • 1 0 • view
Oh, I love that!
jul 20, 2025, 1:58 pm • 6 0 • view
cute!
jul 19, 2025, 8:20 pm • 2 0 • view
So 🇨🇦Canadian🇨🇦😂🤣😂
jul 19, 2025, 6:15 pm • 5 0 • view
Reminds me of Train’s the Way to Go adverts made by Sydney Trains’ predecessors CityRail and the State Rail Authority of NSW in the 1990s. Day version: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xCX0... Night version: m.youtube.com/watch?v=jTUB...
jul 20, 2025, 10:01 pm • 16 3 • view
Another nice pm from Sydney is this 1981 ad from the Urban Transit Authority: m.youtube.com/watch?v=9EV7... “Buses and Ferries and Trains — the more you use us the better we get” (Is that a promise or a threat?).
jul 20, 2025, 11:27 pm • 4 0 • view
At least it’s better than Melbourne’s BATBYGOBSTOPL song (a catchy new ticket buying acronym — Buying a Ticket Before You Get On Board Saves Time Or Problems Later): m.youtube.com/watch?v=84EC... Connex Melbourne used the song ”My baby Takes the Morning Train” in an ad. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UskI...
jul 20, 2025, 11:39 pm • 4 2 • view
Yeah but it’s called the Mark V and the Speed Racer theme was right there!
jul 19, 2025, 9:05 pm • 2 0 • view
This should be the new standard for celebrating the release of new govt services. Nothing beats a cute Broadway jingle to celebrate
jul 20, 2025, 7:06 pm • 5 0 • view
jul 19, 2025, 10:20 pm • 11 0 • view
This is awesome
jul 21, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
This is excellent. Read down in the comments too- people have posted others. What a great way to promote public transit.
jul 19, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Did they rhyme "thing" with "name"?
jul 19, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Can we call them Mark Vancouver? “Hey, I’ll meet you guys at the game. I’m getting a lift from my buddy, Mark Vancouver.”
jul 19, 2025, 6:42 pm • 5 0 • view
Mark Vancouver is killing off Mark Inhospitable and I’m down for it.
jul 19, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Sounds too much like a bad Canadian super hero.
jul 20, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
I love how they didn't once sing where it was, so now everyone knows it exists - but no one can find it.
jul 19, 2025, 6:20 pm • 49 0 • view
open concept!
jul 19, 2025, 7:00 pm • 8 0 • view
Free range!
jul 19, 2025, 7:57 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s Vancouver, BC Canada
jul 20, 2025, 2:15 am • 12 0 • view
I want a @randyrainbow.bsky.social version.
jul 19, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Um…kudos to the actors and singers! Hope they don’t get sued.
jul 19, 2025, 6:11 pm • 7 0 • view
Ohh, usually transit agencies return the favour. Did you know Swiss Federal Railways sued Apple over its clock design plagiarizing their special railway station clockface?
jul 20, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
For what?
jul 20, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
FTR, I mean I hope the company doesn’t get sued…
jul 19, 2025, 6:28 pm • 4 0 • view
This is Canada. Law suits are a last resort not the first go to reaction.
jul 20, 2025, 2:22 am • 9 0 • view
Licensing is your friend. If the legal department is unaware of that then that’s who will have the issue not the actors. They should probably avoid YouTube. They seem to be going bonkers these days. They seem to think they can randomly decide what constitutes fair use.
jul 19, 2025, 6:24 pm • 5 0 • view
I meant the company, not the actors…my bad 😆 The actors looked like they had fun!
jul 19, 2025, 6:27 pm • 4 0 • view
I think people would get more excited about regional infrastructure if they ALL had an elaborate Broadway musical parody
jul 19, 2025, 6:32 pm • 15 0 • view
Maybe when they finish the Broadway line.
jul 19, 2025, 9:40 pm • 7 0 • view
I love it. It feels like Poe's Law, as applied to Broadway musicals.
jul 19, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Being a Londoner, I felt anxious for half the vid once I noticed an unattended bag under the seat 🤣
jul 20, 2025, 7:33 am • 4 0 • view
this is beautiful
jul 20, 2025, 7:53 am • 2 0 • view
Sometimes I like to judge things based on how excited they will make someone who’s doing a deep dive in an archive in 60 years. This is tops.
jul 19, 2025, 8:50 pm • 2 0 • view
This is great.
jul 19, 2025, 8:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Need to ping @rmtransit.bsky.social and @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com #shinyNewTrain
jul 19, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Life would be better if all governments did this
jul 19, 2025, 7:50 pm • 5 0 • view
You've obviously never seen Berlin's BVG public transit operator's official YouTube channel.... but still great job @translink.ca, I love it. youtu.be/FZCNeM1Ahsk?...
jul 19, 2025, 9:01 pm • 6 1 • view
“Because we love you. “ Such a unique slogan for a transit authority.
jul 20, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
jul 20, 2025, 8:31 am • 1 0 • view
I love this so much
jul 19, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I was a massive fan of the Mark 3 sky train, but for me the Mark 4 was a bit of let down. Mark 5 looks so good.
jul 19, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
If riding that train gives me that kind of confidence, I'll fly over from Réunion Island for it!
jul 19, 2025, 6:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Bet it’s also the first time TransLink has received so many ❤️ ‘s.
jul 20, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view