How they WASH the SkyTrain and buses! 

I ride public transportation almost every single day here in Vancouver and just to see how much work goes into cleaning the buses and the Skytrain, thank you for bringing us along Mike!

Transit is the ONLY way I get around town. The part that I like the most is when I get on Skytrain or bus on a hot day and there is air conditioning. Oh, that feels good!

Hey Mike! It was great working with you on this video. I really appreciate you going behind the scenes to show our company's dedication and commitment to keeping customers and employees safe!

I don’t live in Vancouver but I like being in the articulated parts of buses and light rail trains.

You know you're in Canada when even the signs on the bus apologize! 5:36

I spent a week in Vancouver last month and was truly impressed at the cleanliness of every single SkyTrain or bus / trolley we took to get around. Translink can be proud of their work! I live in Montreal and the contrast was absolutely stark when we left SkyTrain at YVR, then got back to YUL and were greeted with a dirty-ish #747 bus that lead us to a dirty-ish Lionel-Groulx Metro station, in which a newer Azur train picked us up. That Azur train had obviously dirty/dusty windows, as did every train we saw along the way. Clearly, the STM is taking some shortcuts with their maintenance.

you know why I love this channel... its so upbeat and full of positive vibes ! another great video Mike 🤓

Very interesting! Who knew someone would have so much fun cleaning a bus and the workers sound (because you couldn't see their faces) very proud of what they do.

I can honestly say I have never even thought about what is involved in keeping the transit systems clean, especially post Covid. Thanks Michael for another interesting and informative video and thank you to all of those workers that do the behind the scenes work to keep everyone safe.

It would be amazing if Translink lets you observe the tunnel boring once they start digging for the Broadway skytrain tunnel. Or even just visiting once of the stations while they're building it.

Big thank you to all the public transportation workers across Vancouver metropolitan area. They really have done a fantastic job over the last year and a half. We actually intentionally did not take the Skytrain unless it was absolutely necessary but that was not because we felt unsafe, it was so that others who had no other option would be safer and have more space. Ultimately fantastic job I always felt safe when I did use public transportation and looking forward to being able to use Vancouver‘s excellent public transportation more again!

Wow, Vancouver's TransLink really keeps their mass transit clean. Much more than New York City's MTA subway trains or buses.

Hi Mike! I discovered your channel about a year ago. So excited you’re still in the game!

Every Saturday when you post a video, I say to myself that this video can't be as entertaining as the previous videos. I am amazed EVERY week how good the videos are. Thanks for keeping everyone informed and entertained at the same time.

Cool behind the scene and well Explained !! Vancouver Transit is on top of things for sure! Nice~!

I rode the Skytrain back in 1985 when you could ride it from Main St to half way down Terminal. Now I live one block away from the Skytrain yard in Burnaby. We have the BEST public transit in all of Canada.

I really appreciate this content, I am heading back to Vancouver and have been really worried about sanitation in public transit. Your video relieved some of that stress :)

Great Job!! Thank you Translink workers! I always noticed and admired how the skytrains are always so clean! (compared to other cities) you make our commute more enjoyable!

Fun and informative 😄 always a nice thing to thank the people who work for the transit system.

Mike: Yet another reason why Vancouver is a safe place to visit. You have done a great job. Vancouver is on our list of places to visit. Keep it up!

I love these behind-the-scenes videos, Mike. Keep up the good work!

my husband has driven tour buses for over 20 years and I don't think he's ever been in a bus wash!

I remember riding the bus wash and going under the busses at VTC when I was 8! So cool to see it all again

Thank you for this video Mike......and a big thank you to all who are involved with keeping the buses and trains so clean!

Thanks Mike. It looks like they have a really efficient system in place for cleaning and maintenance.

Thanks to all the hardworking staff behind the sky train scenes! And thanks Mike for showing us behind the scenes.

Great videos man! Thanks to you I’m putting BC on my must travel list and using your videos as my travel guide!!!

The behind the scenes videos are my absolute favourite! Keep making them! :)

It is so amazing to see the behind the scenes cleaning at Translink especially when the Millennium is the line I mainly take. Great work Mike!

You’re videos are so informative I’ve learned so much about my city since I found your channel

👏to the specialty 🚆cleaning crews! DownieLive again highlights "Gems" in the traveling circle; this time people are the Gems! Thank you Mike! Beth cheerfully Subscribed in NW MT

It was great that you pitched in and didn't just film the regular workers doing it. Stay cool through the unbelievable temperatures I'm reading about in Vancouver,

Quite impressed, very clean public transit.

This is legit my favourite channel I've found in the pandemic. 10/10

Everyone rocked!! Thanks for doing all that cleaning. Mike you did a great job!! Good video, as usual, have a good one!

The front of the skytrain windows are always dirty!! There is a fine line between saving water and doing it to the point where the trains don't look like they get washed at all

05:55 AMTRAK Needs to put these in their Chicago Union Station! ( To start! ) Can you imagine looking outside and NOT seeing diesel soot, water spots, bird poo, and all else!!!

Hi Mike, n thanks for yet another GREAT video upload by Mike and the DownieLive channel! :) ♥ :) ♥ Besides thanking you for another terrific video, thanks for bringing some much needed attention to the little known, not so talked about, hard working people who work every day n night behind the scenes to not only keep the trains people of Vancouver ride in clean, but who also work to keep them free of germs and other nasty things. Please keep those positive vibes you give off in these amazing videos, and the amazing videos you upload, coming!

A Bus-wash! Very cool Mike. Have you ever been to Boston? Our old Green Line train cars are articulated because they make about a 70 degree turn in one spot.

Hi buddy . Great video . Thank you for showing us the amazing work they are doing to keep us safe . I use Skytrain monday to friday and I like individual chairs . Waiting for the next video . Cya!!!

You absolutely make my Saturdays, because you keep coming up with these great videos. Thank you for showing us around the "hidden" part of SkyTrain. Michael, keep rocking it.

Nice to see this stuff was already being done, and the Skytrain team has just stepped up their frequency of cleanings. Bus washes are fun. Is there a train wash? Or is that done by hand?

Great video Mike. You always make the most serious job sound like fun. Keep on doing what you do.

I live in California, but when I am in Vancouver my favorite seat on the skytrain is the one in the very front.

I hope they are still doing this type of cleaning now and has not stop doing it. I like sitting in the single sitters when I ride the Skytrain.

I'm always impressed at how immaculately clean the buses and trains are in Vancouver compared to some other Canadian cities. Puke and sticky floors on bused and grime on the subway is common in Montreal, and some of the cars are still from the 60s although we see more and more of the new Azur ones. And Vancouverites still complain! They often have no idea how good they have it there 😄

Hi, Mike! It was cool to see how everything GOES when People are not around👏 My husband rides a bus in lisbon and nothing works so well... Congratulations👍 I have a question: it was Matt, your editor, that appeared fast in This vídeo?? Stay safe and see you soon!!🙋

I would love to see more cleaning videos on how public transits do it

I'm a driver at VTC I've never realized what I'm missing with the bus wash Another great episode sir

3:34 the change in aspect ratio when you're told you have four minutes left: a minor edit, but one I genuinely enjoyed, thank you for that!

Love the behind the scenes of Translink vehicles

Even tho I don’t live in where ever this happens at I gotta say their service for doing that stuff is impressive

Awesome as usual, Mike. However, I had half-expected something on the tragic devastation in Lytton this week.

Love individual window chair

Thanks for the awesome vid! When I used to transit out to UBC my fav spot on the sky train was right in front of a specific door so that when it opened I could be first down the stairs to catch the 84 from VCC out to UBC 🤣

For a tourist like me, even a video like this is an invitation to travel, especially when I hear the little voice from the skytrain. She reminds me my vacations in Vancouver. The "Ile de France", the region where is Paris, has invested in Bombardier, and sometimes we can hear that little voice in english, the same kind female voice. By the way, I invite you to hear her when you arrive at the terminal station YVR, the way she says it, it's like "Bon voyage".

Fun! Calgary Transit runs open houses occasionally and I got to go through a train wash! It was pretty neato!

This is cool the way they clean buses with they sprayer thing is kind of like what we use at my work

You SERIOUSLY rock Mike!!! Big shoutout n THANXZ a mill to you for all your energies, effort + time n ALLLLL - that you do to put out these fantastic yet FUN videos MIKE!! Ps, the bus wash would be so exciting for myself as well!!! ;) jejeje juss sayin! jeje Keep up the excellent work my friend ! Share, share, share lots ! 🤭🙃

Thanks for sharing. Clean system you have out there.

My favorite place to sit is either at the front or back or in the individual chairs lol

Coming to Vancouver in a couple of months, hope to see you there

In 2009 when the Canada line was still new I remember being so light I would hang off the ceiling straps

I go on a sky train daily. It’s actually pretty fun! Also I live in Canada. To be precise, Ladner bc. Wish they have sky trains but atleast handy darts, community shuttle and bus.

You know you rode the skytrain too damn much when the announcements make you nostalgic XD Hope the heat wave eases off for you guys soon

I enjoyed the behind the scenes video on how the staffs wash both the skytrain and buses. Very informative and clear. For me, if there's a seat i would sit in the individual seats on the expo line, if not i stand by the handle in the middle, not touch the handles.

It was so funny where he got stuck in the sky train 😂

I like to sit in the single seats but if there's none, I sit in the double seats. If there's nowhere to sit i'll lean on the bars cause i'm still paranoid about touching ANYTHING. Props to Translink's pit crews

Love it. Thanks for giving us a peek into behind the scenes with Translink. Liked, Subscribed. Thank you.

Your videos make me wanna be back in BC so bad. Going to enjoy my time on the east coast until then. Great video

Didnt expect they did a lot of work!!!

The front seat no the skytrain is my favourite spot

One time as I was transiting home, some old man urinated on the seats, god bless that janitor who took care of that issue

Awesome job Mike and Matt. Now I really want to move up there and work for Skytrain. LOL Keep up the great work guys..

I always had a curiosity, how do we get cleaned up buses and skytrains and how would they do it, today I got all my answers. Thank you downie for sharing such amazing insights on how the cleaning is done. And respect and a special thanks for every worker working to provide us with a clean transit. Thank you once again!

The next time Translink wants a voiceover celebrity for the trains, I'm going to nominate you.

Sometimes you create off judgements, as you can’t control dehydration/death. Yet same note. People can clean up after themselves. Just saying this as there will more things like this in the future to have you wonder more. 🔥

6:28 even the buses in canada say sorry

Hi Michael!!! My son and I love your shows!!! Today we went to a cool spot Sailor’s Point just West of Lonsdale Sea Bus Terminal commemorating Marines. BCIT has a marine training center there and they do Life Boat Launch training. And couple feet away is also the Trans Canada Trail Pavilion. Very fascinating stuff. Wanted to tell you about it so you can make a video about all that!!! Keep making fun videos!!!

I love this video. I think that you need to go back to the bus wash and show us how they wash one of the electric buses, cause we all know how well water and electricity mix!

I take that skytrain everyday, never thought I would be entertained by watching a video about it but here i am

Worked here a long time ago, did they show you one of the walkways in one of the shops that goes under the tracks with a small ladder, and it's on ATC/automatic train control and there was a sign warning of decapitation hazard should you chose to climb up it without obtaining a PTE / permission to enter .. was one of the things they mentioned during first day safety orientation when they were pointing out hazards and from stories of workers not shielding / getting too close to the the power pickup shoes of the trains and go flying, to people tripping on escalators and poopooing on the trains @@ lots of crazy shit in the ops logs xD but very nice environment to work in very decent and professional people

I also often travel through this station VCC clark

You do travelling theres a highway up here in northern British Columbia you should take a trip on. It's the nisga'a highway from terrace to a village called kincolith. Highway 113 I believe is the number

Clean and clear...

Super cool same way we do it here in Orlando

Fun and informative at the same time! I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Hitting the like.

Thank you mike for showing how the shy trains get cleaned my namei Curtis Sullivan and i live in Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada

Hello Mike! Have you ever actually gone live on DownieLIVE?

Another great video, thanks Mike!

front seat is my fav usually I sometimes used to pretend i was driving the train lol I rode the train enough to know where I was withing a few seconds if i was reading or something and looked around this is just on Expo line King George to Waterfront

I can certainly get used to getting more content about public transit in Vancouver :)

I love standing on the joint section of my local light rail...cuz I sit so much

3:36 you should have put in intense/dramatic movie soundtrack music 3:50 I love sitting at the very end on the single seat 4:35 *insert intense Bear McCreary music* 4:46 The Next Station Is Commercial-Broadway

I’ll be in Vancouver in 10 Days Can’t wait to try all of your city-based recommendations!!

Hi! Mike! Great informative video. Have a great week! 😊

Not to criticize the Skytrain deep cleaning crew, but one should clean from the top down, thus, they should spray down and mop last.

Haha this is the video I didn’t know I needed to watch. Very cool and interesting. Thanks !

You lost me at "favorite position...."🤣 But seriously, when do you think you'll be able to travel again? Luv Vancouver but miss the traveling aspect. Yes(!) always say thank you when exiting the bus! So simple n can brighten someone's day!🌞

Make a video where they show you the mark 1 wipers.