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around 25 minutes to reach downtown's Waterfront Station. If you prefer to cab it,
budget $30 to $40 for the 30-minute taxi ride from the airport to your downtown hotel.
BICYCLE
With routes running across town, Vancouver is a relatively good cycling city. Cyclists
can take bikes for free on SkyTrains, SeaBuses and rack-fitted transit buses. For maps
and resources, see the City of Vancouver ( www.vancouver.ca ) website.
BOAT
Running mini-vessels (some big enough to carry bikes) between the foot of Hornby St
and Granville Island, Aquabus Ferries ( www.theaquabus.com ; adult/child from $3/1.50) ser-
vices spots along False Creek as far as Science World. Its cutthroat rival is False Creek
Ferries ( www.granvilleislandferries.bc.ca ; adult/child from $3/1.50) , which operates a similar
Granville Island service from the Aquatic Centre, plus additional ports of call around
False Creek.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
A ticket bought on any of the TransLink ( www.translink.bc.ca ) bus, SkyTrain and SeaBus
services is valid for 90 minutes of travel on the entire network, depending on the zone
you intend to travel in. The three zones become progressively more expensive the further
you journey.
One-zone tickets are adult/child $2.75/1.75, two-zone tickets $4/2.75 and three-zone
tickets $5.50/3.75. An all-day, all-zone pass costs $9.75/7.50. If you're traveling after
6:30pm or on weekends or holidays, all trips are classed as one-zone fares and cost
$2.75/1.75. Children under five years travel free on all transit services.
At time of writing, a new swipeable farecard system called Compass was being in-
stalled - check the TransLink website for the latest information.
The aquatic SeaBus shuttle operates every 15 to 30 minutes throughout the day, taking
12 minutes to cross the Burrard Inlet between Waterfront Station and Lonsdale Quay. At
Lonsdale there's a bus terminal servicing routes throughout North Vancouver and West
Vancouver. Vessels are wheelchair accessible and bike friendly.
The SkyTrain rapid-transit network consists of three routes. The original Expo Line
runs between downtown Vancouver and Surrey, via stops throughout Burnaby and New
Westminster. The Millennium Line alights near shopping malls and suburban residential
districts in Coquitlam and Burnaby. Opened in late 2009, the Canada Line links the city
to the airport and Richmond. If you're heading for the airport from the city, make sure
you board a YVR-bound train - some are heading to Richmond but not the airport.