Vancouver’s first FIFA World Cup match delivers TransLink’s busiest Saturday event since Olympics
Indo-Canadian Voice Vancouver’s first FIFA World Cup match delivers TransLink’s busiest Saturday event since Olympics posted by: Rattan MallON Saturday, June 13, TransLink recorded its busiest Saturday ridership for a BC Place event since the 2010 Olympics, as thousands of fans relied on transit to get to Vancouver’s first FIFA World Cup 2026 match, the FIFA Fan Festival, work, and destinations across Metro Vancouver. System-wide, TransLink saw more than one million boardings and […] The post Vancouver’s first FIFA World Cup match delivers TransLink’s busiest Saturday event since Olympics first appeared on Indo-Canadian Voice.Indo-Canadian Voice
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ON Saturday, June 13, TransLink recorded its busiest Saturday ridership for a BC Place event since the 2010 Olympics, as thousands of fans relied on transit to get to Vancouver’s first FIFA World Cup 2026 match, the FIFA Fan Festival, work, and destinations across Metro Vancouver.
System-wide, TransLink saw more than one million boardings and approximately 648,200 trips — a nearly 18 per cent increase in trips compared to a typical Saturday.
Ridership around BC Place also reached historic levels, with stations that serve the stadium seeing the highest Saturday event-day ridership since the 2010 Olympics. Ridership at those stations surpassed both Taylor Swift’s Saturday Eras Tour concert and the Lionel Messi match at BC Place.
SkyTrain saw especially strong demand, with almost 450,000 boardings, up 25 per cent compared to a typical Saturday. SeaBus saw the highest percentage increase by mode, with ridership up more than 37 per cent.
The overall increase in ridership shows the important role transit plays in moving people for large events, while also keeping people connected to businesses and other destinations across the region, says TransLink.
This ridership report is based on preliminary data, and exact figures may change as ridership estimates are finalized.
