Pretending they don't know what the cause of the odor is must be hard.

@Stalofos

11 күн бұрын

Its genuinely hilarious how far people are willing to ignore reality.

@OriginalMessiFan

11 күн бұрын

i kinda wanna smell it

@albane2885

10 күн бұрын

@@Stalofos it’s actually dangerous. our news has failed

@superdaddychannel8270

9 күн бұрын

This kind of political correctness is BS. Of course is the pee and poo by the homeless

@cao6496

8 күн бұрын

please be brave and tell us what type of smell they are?

Vancouver is now one giant ass.

@perryfefchuk637

11 күн бұрын

Just another shit stain Like Toronto

@mathewvanostin7118

6 күн бұрын

Yes and the metro is vancouver's anos

@christalball93_

5 күн бұрын

@@garichar now?

@nothinggnihton3916

5 күн бұрын

i agree lol

@frostytipsasmr

5 күн бұрын

facts

Aren't you journalists supposed to investigate the cause, not simply pose the question and walk away..?

People are defecating in the streets and parks due to lack of housing and facilities. During a heat wave that is absolutely what it smells like. Ive traveled and seen the same thing down in poor areas in other countries as well

Quality of life / standard of living in Canada has rapidly declined.

@VLV657

11 күн бұрын

This. I’ve stopped going downtown, everywhere smells like piss and no one is doing anything about it.

@gormenfreeman499

11 күн бұрын

If these problems are to get fixed it will be up to white Canadians or maybe asians like south korean Canadians to fix. Others like Indian people cant even fix issues like a bad stench in their own stomping grounds in India. Unlikely they’ll much be much help here.

@johnnybaxter1953

11 күн бұрын

Import the third world, become the third world

@Starrynova

11 күн бұрын

Thanks to the fucking liberals

@trevor2719

11 күн бұрын

Depends where you live. Ottawa is freaking amazing and clean.

Skytrain smells like poop and pee most of the time,and stations in downtown area smells like poop and pee too. Saw pee in the elevators all the time during the winter.

@UrbanistBlooms

11 күн бұрын

That is just not true. It's fine

@zlatkostevanovic5891

10 күн бұрын

@@UrbanistBlooms nope, downtown smells like piss

@Spritel4

10 күн бұрын

​@@zlatkostevanovic5891Dt Vancouver is the ass crack of BC.

@shakeemsymonds7362

8 күн бұрын

Yeah as an Albertan who's been to Vancouver recently... Edmonton and Vancouver's transit system smells the same and have the same lingering issues...

@pissoff9749

6 күн бұрын

@@UrbanistBloomsjust not true or 100% factual and verifiable?

Christ. It doesn't take a genius to know the cause. It's the homeless

A lot of Vancouver smells like a toilet. I think they should probably stop the homeless from using our streets as their personal bathroom.

@yvonnemariane2265

10 күн бұрын

Stop. Underground subways are notorious for this problem. We weren't meant to live like bugs..

@VirtualR

10 күн бұрын

Or maybe they could encourage building more property to lower the demand and give the homeless basic shelters.

@harrycooper5231

9 күн бұрын

@@VirtualR Come come, all money must be diverted to the elite, anything else is "socialism." Just ask a MAGA.

@futurepastself2777

9 күн бұрын

Who lives in the underground Subway?​@@yvonnemariane2265

@karpsii356

9 күн бұрын

@@VirtualR Factual you cant even use a bathroom downtown as a paying customer tho

Its the smell of the city actually rotting away.

@markwilkie7633

11 күн бұрын

true. its modern day sodom and Gomorrah

GOOD MORNING SIRS

@user-of7hj6oq9z

3 күн бұрын

based

Vancouver is now one big outhouse

They are smelling the corruption of translink. 20 million dollars for repairs to 2 escalators in granville station?! Gimme a break! Secret backroom deals stink!

@kc3678

11 күн бұрын

They just got more money I heard, on top of the bailout during the plandemic. Bunch of ticks those at the top are in that corporation.

Yeah, it's called people not taking showers and not using deodorants.

@adayfortea

9 күн бұрын

And homeless people covered in shit and piss

@Whatzyourdeal

7 күн бұрын

Exactly

@agewilson

7 күн бұрын

Or that only paying customers can use toilets in a city with a severe drug and housing crisis. Passengers are suggesting sewage, not BO

@Supremax67

7 күн бұрын

@@agewilson -- Right, yet they checked that too. They said they can't pinpoint the smell, so it is not structural. Sewer leakage would be the first place a city would check for smells.

@edwinacaparelli9911

6 күн бұрын

I don't think it's that kind of smell. They're describing sewage, maybe natural gas, or decomposing flesh.

I went to Metrotown last week, it was a true assault to the senses. I couldn’t even use a change room; the odour was so bad they had to call in back up to get ride of it. The entire place smelled like a giant armpit.

@wailingwarfare

6 күн бұрын

Marlboros, old beer, onion and ass

In response to increased complaints of foul odors at SkyTrain stations in the Metro Vancouver area, a formal air quality study was conducted under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change of Canada. This study took place in May 2024 and involved air sampling across three major routes: Waterfront Station to King George Station, Waterfront Station to Braid Station, and Waterfront Station to Production Way-University Station. Air probes were systematically collected and analyzed to determine the levels of various compounds. The focus was detecting fat-soluble oils and inorganic salts, specifically sodium, chloride, and potassium, indicating human perspiration. The study revealed significantly elevated levels of these compounds along the Waterfront Station to King George Station route. The concentrations of fat-soluble oils and the specified salts were 374% higher on this route than on the other routes tested.

@smasherblues5322

11 күн бұрын

So, foreigners?

@magnoliaflower3310

10 күн бұрын

@@smasherblues5322 Foreigners? You mean the general public. Or just people not part of the top income bracket.

@user-kh7eb7th8d

10 күн бұрын

@@magnoliaflower3310he means stinky foreigners

@Youwoketube

9 күн бұрын

This study costed a few million and gave the same result as what we already knew. Illegal immigrants

@mikehunt4797

8 күн бұрын

​@@Youwoketubenaw that station has stunk for over a decade. I would know I used to ride the sky train daily when I lived in Vancouver before leaving that dump and moving up north.

The blond ladies giggles made my morning 😂

@terrencedeagle4429

6 күн бұрын

Mine too. A small and a laugh.

@meercatmommy

2 күн бұрын

she's adorable lol

last time I was on it, the stink was from the other passengers

Sewage pipes leaking. Number 20 bus South bound goes through Hastings, picks up people that need to sleep and some who need a place to sit while their drugs work. Boarded the bus a few times to find people sleeping, leaving biohazards on the seats and some on the verge of overdosing. Not complaining just sharing what I have observed. Translink needs to change the bus route!!

@Carftymk

7 күн бұрын

great guess. but it's just indians

Let's all start with wearing DEORDERENT, please!

@BDee3126

11 күн бұрын

Saurry bauddy it's me bauddy, saurry bauddy.

@voodoostroker

11 күн бұрын

@@BDee3126 nailed it

@JaneNayes

11 күн бұрын

You don't control what I choose to put on my body

@voodoostroker

11 күн бұрын

@@JaneNayes You should control the scent that comes from your body, especially if it offends everyone around you 🙊

@BruceKarimi

11 күн бұрын

@@JaneNayes Then if I take a shit on your hands and you happen to be there, that's not what my problem.

Good old million dollar living standards.

@ransom182

11 күн бұрын

Stay in your small town/city you don't understand the complexities and advantages to city living

@BoochBanner

11 күн бұрын

​​@@ransom182apparently you don't understand the complexities of the English language, stinky.

@kingmo565

11 күн бұрын

@@ransom182 Clearly you're responsible for the smell.

Probably all the drug addicts pooping everywhere

Whoever denied it supplied it

My mother in law came to visit us in Vancouver (I live in the lower mainland). When I took her downtown by foot, after crossing the bridge on Granville side, we immediately got hit by the smell of piss, and I felt a bit ashamed that she had to see how the streets were filled with drug addicts acting anything but normal.

This is why Taipei's, Singapore's and Tokyo's ones are the best.. they find out about this and will be solved fast. Every time we go back to Taipei, that line handles millions PER day and yet no escalators are down.. either we have very bad trades or management getting kickbacks

I think the smell is the clusters of skytrain staff hanging around in the stations, doing nothing while the fares go up every year.

No one contacted 311 because it's happening on TRanslink property so the complaint goes to them. Please Stop passing the buck and get on to fixing it because it's bad

@ruslbicycle6006

8 күн бұрын

When Translink tries to pretend that Coast Mountain Bus or (whatever name they came up for for Skytrain administration) is not the same as then you know your about to hear some serious BS passing the buck

Just one more reason to not go downtown. This city has gone down the toilet, how can anyone say things are better?

@machinesnmetal

11 күн бұрын

down the tubes, the tubes

@gormenfreeman499

11 күн бұрын

Now watch one of the original liberal rallies from 2015 with Trudeau and you’ll see everything he said he was bullcrap. All Trudeau had to do was say some kind of wishy washy things like “womens issues are everyone issues” and then get applause. Meanwhile womens issues have only gotten worse since then. Many women since then are now reaching middle age and still unmarried and growing very unhappy. The culture failed them. Lol

There's probably a Gollum living down there and using the subway exit doors or the ventilation as a toilet facility.

@arveedibira2454

10 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

Vancouver is absolutely disgusting

Canadians are sooooo nice. Too sweet to complain. We just suck it up.

@NightimeInDeepSpace

10 күн бұрын

It's pathetic and gross simpering

@ja2z988

7 күн бұрын

literally.

@Rosa_101

7 күн бұрын

Yea sounds like our politics too

@bozenaszucs4191

4 күн бұрын

Start to change

A side effect of fentanyl abuse is incontinence. Not accusing anyone, but I'm just sayin'.

@gskv3331

11 күн бұрын

naah it's that someone.

@yolobathsalts

11 күн бұрын

Are you sure about that? Opioids cause extreme constipation. Why are you lying?

@buck_swope

7 күн бұрын

Literally the opposite is true lol. Opiates cause constipation. The issue is the Indians.

The stench of desperation.😂

something dead in the train tunnels

@ChelleLlewes

11 күн бұрын

I was thinking the same...possibly inside the walls...? And the area is right for the smell to come and go with the tide...?

@SeethingSimp

11 күн бұрын

Canada's future?

@rafayetrasti6191

11 күн бұрын

There's no way that lingers for 4 months and the smell is "on and off". This is something else. Likely sewage.

@lesliengo8347

11 күн бұрын

Between Burrard Station and Waterfront Station, there is a section underground beside the tracks that has graffiti and trash littered. It looks like nobody has cleaned up the section for years. For some reason, I assume it was left over from the 2011 Canucks riot. When commuting from Waterfront station to Burrard, look out on the right side facing the front of the train and you will see the mess.

The smell of corruption.

New West Station always smells like rancid fish

@juelz4444

7 күн бұрын

I always thought it smelled like rancid milk more so on the west bound side. 😮🤢🤮

What a miserable place. It's probably poisonous gas.

We once owned a laundromat and there was this one homeless lady that always had a super stinky blanket on top of her head (it's like the blanket wasn't washed for years) and she came into our laundromat a couple times for just like 2 minutes but after she left we couldn't get rid of that smell for days. If you've lived in Vancouver in the 90's you've probably seen that lady walking around Kingsway and Victoria like everyday trying to enter businesses but people had to hold their door to keep her from going in.

@icantwiththis

11 күн бұрын

Gawd I lived at Kingsway and Victoria in the 90s you just triggered my trauma 🤮

@lulabloom4636

11 күн бұрын

ugh... poor soul. I remember a man at our local laundromat on Commercial Drive that dragged a black plastic sack in that left a trail of fluid so rank i had to leave the building...still shudder at the memory

@gewgleplussuux5756

4 күн бұрын

​@@lulabloom4636 fentanyl snack bag! XD

Thank goodness I don't live near there anymore. Born and raised on the coast. Best decision of my life was to move to a smaller town. I have no desire to even visit. City life just sucks.

When you import a million or more people from a country where soap is not a common item, you get a stinky metro. Not that hard to figure out.

@arveedibira2454

10 күн бұрын

😂😂

@v.j.3029

9 күн бұрын

So Canada has officially become India. I remember Russell Peters once joked that whenever he goes back to India, the smell of shit in the air punches you in the face the second you get off the plane.

@paradox_1729

8 күн бұрын

Umm no buddy, its your homeless people, white mostly from experience.

@HughJanus9999

8 күн бұрын

@@paradox_1729 poo goes in the loo not the street

@Whatzyourdeal

7 күн бұрын

@@paradox_1729its indians. I live in Surrey and its non stop smells.

They are afraid to come out and say the obvious reason; so they post a tell-nothing story and hope somebody in the comments section is brave/foolish enough to have their politically-incorrect conversation for them.

@ruslbicycle6006

8 күн бұрын

tell us then, Sherlock

@ja2z988

7 күн бұрын

😂

@Azure1013

7 күн бұрын

I've been hiding dead bodies down there

@user-ym1xj2fx8o

6 күн бұрын

@@ruslbicycle6006 it's yo mama.

It's body odor. Tell those people to take a shower and use a deodorant.

@odellsilva345

4 күн бұрын

Exactly👳‍♂️ 🇮🇳

The memes write themselves.

601 bus from Bridgeport to Delta is absolutely horrendous!!

Over a million people living in the area and no one reported the issue to the city and the city hasn't even started investigating. Oh that's definitely the Canadian way. We are useless.

Not the sky train smells like several asses 😂

i can smell piss in most lrt train stations both inside and outside in calgary

Probably a sewer leak from a cracked pipe that is leaking into the vent system. Could be hard to find unless they run a remote controlled camera trolly through it.

Let me solve the mystery : No Deodorant, spicy food selections and homeless people stinking and using everywhere as a toilet.

@Paul-dk8yp

8 күн бұрын

Russian malinformation!!!

@ruslbicycle6006

8 күн бұрын

Let's ignore the MetroVancouver sewage pipe leak and blame minorities that are easy to scapegoat.

@walkman6150

8 күн бұрын

@ruslbicycle6006 the pipes downtown don't make Coquitlam trains stink. If you can't smell it or even acknowledge who is causing it there is a good chance you are stinking yourself. This isn't some stereotype based in ignorance. Its people's lived and smelled experiences. We know how trains used to smell...we know how they smell now... we can visually see what has changed. It's really not hard to comprehend

@ruslbicycle6006

8 күн бұрын

@@walkman6150 Wow, that's some long winded excuse for xenophobic nonsense. "Acknowledge who is causing it" is such a disgusting statement my nose is recoiling right through the laptop screen. Who is causing it is you and me. Because we are distracted by online hate BS written for us by algorithms who care not what is written, just that it gets clicks. So then we don't hold the government to account in a reasonable way. Instead of getting the decisions made that will fund proper train cleaning, proper maintenance, the bureaucrats can point to xenophobic comments like yours and dismiss the whole thing as just "normal" and not actually fix the problem. The hateful comments make the workers depressed so the really excellent workers quit and only the type who does the bare minimum sticks around. Having a nice city and train system takes real work. You aren't doing it. You just make it harder for those that do. Kindness and thoughtfulness isn't stupid. Prejudice and assumptions are.

@Whatzyourdeal

7 күн бұрын

@@walkman6150well said.

I'd say it's most likely the old tunnel smell since that tunnel has existed since the '80s let alone the part that used to be used by freight trains which has been around since God knows how long

@bonnienichalson5151

11 күн бұрын

Check out the Vancouver Book for the History of the Canada line tunnel ? It older than your mom !

@paulmicheals9534

3 күн бұрын

see my response. You are most likely spot on. good potential for sulfides in the tunnel but hopefully not related to volcanism. There are fault lines everywhere under the city.

I was at Waterfront a few days ago after I finished hanging out with a friend and the Expo Line SkyTrain platform smelled like f****** human shit. I’m telling you, the Expo Line underground stations are only smelling worse because of the nearby septic and sewage system.

last time I got into the elevator it had urine on the floor yes that smell is later in the day and very pungent

it's the coast: standing stagnant water is somewhere behind those walls: failure of the building "envelope'. in other news, the Calgary Husky stop long haul in the mens' bathroom has a sign I wanted to steal: "Drivers, please don't wash your feet in the sink". !!

I think some people just need shower, on the other day, I was taking the skytrain from marine dr to oakridge, there was this guy smells like piss, and he is not even homeless, he actually got branded clothes and using a new iPhone, and on my way back, there was this guy, in suit, look like a professional office worker, smells like alcohol mixed with old gym bag. And then there was a guy carrying a big bags of take out. It smells nice at first, but after a few mins, I started to feel disgusted.

maybe the smelly ppl?

I noticed the smell when i went to the store the other day, my apartment is perfumed.

Homeless addicts smells , a bit harsh but thats true, hold your breath when you are inside the elevator

That tunnel must be the large colon of Vancouver, the ass is City Hall.😂

I was a carpet cleaner a long time ago and we used to do the Mr Mikes steakhouse on Granville st and i can tell you it smelled like a sewer at the best times so having a sewer smell is nothing new.

I haven't gone downtown lately aside from going as far as Stadium station but when did it became that bad? Even before covid I had to watch the sidewalks for poops and needles.

@MizrahiChick

11 күн бұрын

The poops . I hate the poops.

You get what you vote for. CTV could not just tell everyone what it is. They leave it to the comments to do their work. Truth is not what they do.

I wonder how many people secretly live in those tunnels.

Olympic village had a sewage pipe burst and all of downtown including where I live in west end stunk like poop this past weekend I had to sleep in heat with my windows closed when I needed them open to cool my suite...also whenever I'm on the granville bus 14 down granville it stinks on granville as well as around Clark drive....also every time I get on akytrain at stadium and head to surrey the whole skytrain stinks bad....something is wrong with the sewage pipes in our city

If you are smelling it. It’s inside your body now 🤢

@meganhoward8820

11 күн бұрын

When it smells so bad you can taste it, thats because you are in fact tasting it. 😝

@subdeaconk

11 күн бұрын

Guys stahp 😆

@FloydRunner2049

11 күн бұрын

When it grows on you inside it’s a tumor. Outwardly, it’s fungus like stain that’s dispersed with someone’s sprayer. Once the fungus flakes start flying - it’s over

@v.j.3029

9 күн бұрын

It’s like that Smelly Car Seinfeld episode. Whoever goes in those trains will never get rid of the smell, it has attached to them forever. 😝

Going too left is good. It also smells good?

Didn't I hear that there was a rat problem?

Sorry, everyone. I started my new plant based diet. Those soy bean farts are no joke.

The funk will be quite prominent in the Summer and permeate all of downtown core. Mark my words.

One thing I do know is that we need to bring back the old Douglas College ads

There have never been available washrooms for the public, only for Transit Personnel. It is inhumane and pathetic. I commuted for 18 years from Vancouver to Surrey and even the pit stops closed their doors to any public usage. I don't blame them. It's a horrible situation.

Isn't there sewer main work going on near Burrard Station right now?

I'm at Granville station now. Can confirm. It smells like rotten eggs. Not body odor. EDIT - I am now on the actual train. Holy hell. Can Axe body spray help these pour stinky souls. Jeeeeesus you could cut a diamond with this stench.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

I swear it is always around Burrard and Granville station. I travel to Vancouver everyday for work.

They don’t regularly clean the stations either. Granville is disgusting now

Sorry, it's my rancid hot farts!!

Toronto's SRT had a bad smell at Midland Station. It was due to the cardboard recycling plant and Atlantic Packaging. It was pure farts lol

It smells like a mix of rotten eggs and a decomposing body.

@paulmicheals9534

3 күн бұрын

Could be or a dead seal

No fun Vancouver strikes again. It's turned into the butt of jokes that never go away.

@bonnienichalson5151

11 күн бұрын

I love liveing in city 🌆 If you don't like it go somewhere else!👍✨🌅

That stench is particularly bad in Burrard but it's not unique to the SkyTrain - exact same smell in one particular station in Hong Kong apparently caused by an old leaky sewer in the area which seeps through the micro cracks of the rock...

See, when the stations are designed as utilitarian herding docks for consumers, people are not as embarrased to offend against them. Go to the Moscow Metro...not perfect but the ambience is WAY better.

Nobody complained because it’s normal in india

Most of the stations smell like pee. While trains and busses smell like urine and poop especially the chairs. Plus body odor.

People are defecating everywhere… yet I can’t have a beer at the beach, ❤Vancouver

Isnt the answer obvious?? 🙄

As bad as it is, at least it isn't the "funk" that permeates the Montreal Metro.... That smell tracks onto their busses in the winter too. It even survived a cross- country trip when their busses were shipped to Victoria to cover the busses loaned to Translink for the 2010 Olympics.

@v.j.3029

9 күн бұрын

The last time I took the subway in Montreal was in the early 90’s until I got my first car. I remember it sometimes smelled of rotten eggs. I’ll bet that was more pleasant than what it smells like now, with all the homeless people living down there.

It's the sewer pipes the worst is below the convention center

This has been going on for a long time, I usually smell it here and there on my way to and from work. Couple that with rising temperatures, and a heat wave this week? It's gonna smell real bad. I'm honestly more surprised at the fact the news is covering it

That's not true that this smell has only been there for a couple of months. It's been there for years in the underground portions of the Expo Line, and the trains keep smelling all the way to Main Station or even Commercial. To those who say it's the smell of homeless people, no it's not. Many homeless people smell strongly, but this is an entirely different smell. Walking around the Broadway digging operations for the Skytrain line extension, I occasionally get whiffs of that same smell, a bit like sewers on a hot day. If there aren't leaking sewer lines down there, maybe it's the ground itself that smells like that? Is it possible that the deeper soil has a high concentration of sulfur or something alike?

oops sorry everyone...it's my farts. haha

Smells like sulphur, you can smell it at science world sometimes

The Skytrain has smelled like urine and farts for years. So glad I don’t have to commute into Vancouver anymore. It truly is a third world toilet 🤮

Hopefully its not a volcano becoming active somewhere

Trudeau and Eby's policies.

when you use the same mop to clean bathroom floors that you do to clean the skytrain floors they are going to smell

@RedRecon-r1e

11 күн бұрын

There are no public bathrooms at any skytrain stations

It's just me. I enjoy mackerel 'n beans.

Rotten eggs is Rotten eggs which is either pepsin added to natural gas, something naturally decomposing, or subterranean ie: volcanic sulfides in rock. Also given it is a certain time of the day it could be prevailing winds from the Shore to Ship Sulphur exports on the North Shore. JMO

Oh, thats just the indians

And this is why I still wear a mask. It’s almost like a nose plug to me

You know it smell crazy in there.

It smells like *carbon tax*