From: dmalcolmjohnston=yahoo.com@...>

A correction, in my haste I have made an error, the Expo and Millennium lines, had in 2019 over 900 employees.

The Canada Line being a P-3, the number of employees are deemed proprietary and not released. In 2011 there was 180 unionized employees and i an trying to get a more current number but i do remember i was rather shocked by the number of people working on the SkyTrain light metro system.

It is safe to say that well over 1,200 unionized workers work on all three driverless rapid transit lines.

Another hint is that TransLink has almost 1,000 employees earning over CAD$100K, but that is it no breakdown of who works where.

From my records, The Expo line has cost about 60% more to operate than Calgary's C-Train, with both lines being about the same length, but that was about decade ago.

TransLink does not like to release reliable numbers so it is is difficult to get accurate figures, except by gleening local media for PR slip ups.

Suffice to say, no one has copied Vancouver's transit planning, nor its exclusive use of driverless trains.

Malcolm