Moving across the city

Once you are already in Vancouver, one of the most important things you need to be able to do is to know the city without needing to walk it all. The public transportation here is divided into three kinds of transport, the SkyTrain, the bus, and the Seabus. There are a few ways that you can pay for those services, they are credit or debit cards, cash, or the Compass Card.

Here in Vancouver, public transport is divided into three zones, depending on which place of the city you are in, the farthest you are from downtown, and the most expensive you’ll pay.

The Skytrain works on weekdays between 5:00 to 1:30 am, on Saturdays between 6:00 and 1:30 am and on Sundays between 7:30 and 12:30 am. The bus works between 5:00 to 1:00 am. Even without the bus or the Skytrain, you can take the night bus that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but it passes between 20-30 min.

You can find all the prices on the tables below:

Cash Fare

​PASS TYPE	1-ZONE	2-ZONE	3-ZPNE
ADULT	$3.10	$4.45	$6.05
CONCESSION	$2.05	$3.05	$4.45

Contactless Payment Fare

PASS TYPE	1-ZONE	2-ZONE	3-ZONE
CONCESSION	$3.10	$4.45	$6.05

Stored Value on Compass Card

PASS TYPE	1-ZONE	2-ZONE	3-ZONE
ADULT	$2.50	$3.65	$4.70
CONCESSION	$2.05	$3.05	$4.15

Monthly Pass on Compass Card

PASS TYPE	1-ZONE	2-ZONE	3-ZONE
ADULT	$102.55	$137.10	$185.20
CONCESSION	-	-	$58.60

Day Pass on Compass Card or Ticket

PASS TYPE	ALL ZONES- ALL DAY
ADULTS	$11
CONCESSION	$8.65

If you want to have the compass card, you’ll need to go to a compass retailer to buy the card itself. After it, you’ll need to choose between the options given on the tables.

A thing that is really important for you to do after charging your Compass Card is to register yourself on the Translink website because if you lose it or anything happens to your card, you can transfer all the funds from the previous one to the new one.

https://www.translink.ca/