September 25, 2009
Olympic trains to arrive in December

Vancouver’s 2010 Streetcars will be unloaded at the Port of Tacoma instead of VANOC sponsor Port Metro Vancouver’s docks.

The two 32-metre Bombardier Flexity vehicles from Brussels are being shipped from Bremen, Germany through the Panama Canal for arrival in the first week of December. Bombardier spokeswoman Kathryn Nickerson said logistics giant Prangl ships to Tacoma, not Vancouver.

“Ours is only a small part of their cargo.” she said. “We’ve used them for many years and they ship our freight all over the world.”

The streetcars will run Jan. 21 to March 21 on new $9 million tracks from Granville Island to the Canada Line’s Olympic Village station.