[Mac Write]

This week with the 3rd Mark V now in revenue service, I was running the numbers on the 1 to 1 replacement for the Mark I fleet (150 cars) and realized (I knew this a long time ago but) that with 150 Mark V cars we are going from 25 6-car Mark I trains to 30 5-car Mark V trains! Not only are we getting 20% more trains thanks to the increased car length that started with the Mark II and early 90's Mark I extended edition that never happened.

What are 30 Mark V trains equivalent to in Mark 1 terms? Add the 11 additional trains for the broadway subway and sadly only 6 Mark V trains for the 16lkm Langley extension and at first it seems we are getting a capacity upgrade but now that I have written all this it seems we won't have enough trains to offer 3 minute service Water-front to Langley and 90 second service waterfront to Arbutus.