What’s causing the smell at SkyTrain stations?

[@allanj4576]

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

[@Stalofos]

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

[@OriginalMessiFan]

i kinda wanna smell it

[@albane2885]

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

[@superdaddychannel8270]

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

[@cao6496]

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

[@garichar]

Vancouver is now one giant ass.

[@perryfefchuk637]

Just another shit stain Like Toronto

[@mathewvanostin7118]

Yes and the metro is vancouver's anos

[@christalball93_]

@@garichar now?

[@nothinggnihton3916]

i agree lol

[@frostytipsasmr]

facts

[@fayefaye3388]

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.

[@zlatkostevanovic5891]

@UrbanistBlooms nope, downtown smells like piss

[@Spritel4]

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

[@shakeemsymonds7362]

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]

@UrbanistBloomsjust not true or 100% factual and verifiable?

[@hybbfr727]

it's mostly downtown, suburban stations are fine

[@mikzin630]

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

[@Inquisitor2024]

Integrity does not exist anymore.

[@MCowie]

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]

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

[@VirtualR]

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

[@harrycooper5231]

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

[@futurepastself2777]

Who lives in the underground Subway?​@@yvonnemariane2265

[@karpsii356]

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

[@debbieeinarson1929]

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

[@Axelrod_1771]

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]

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.

[@Supremax67]

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

[@adayfortea]

And homeless people covered in shit and piss

[@Whatzyourdeal]

Exactly

[@agewilson]

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]

@@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]

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

[@MrBlairskie]

Its the smell of the city actually rotting away.

[@markwilkie7633]

true. its modern day sodom and Gomorrah

[@TofuCate]

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

[@mantonius1877]

GOOD MORNING SIRS

[@imrankhani-l3v]

based

[@scratchcratch]

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]

So, foreigners?

[@magnoliaflower3310]

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

[@ColbyTraves]

@@magnoliaflower3310he means stinky foreigners

[@Youwoketube]

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

[@mikehunt4797]

​@@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.

[@stevepaterson7503]

Whoever denied it supplied it

[@ransom182]

Let's all start with wearing DEORDERENT, please!

[@BDee3126]

Saurry bauddy it's me bauddy, saurry bauddy.

[@voodootrucker]

@@BDee3126 nailed it

[@JaneNayes]

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

[@voodootrucker]

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

[@BruceKarimi]

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

[@Sumkneegrow]

Vancouver is now one big outhouse

[@Myperfectshell]

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]

Marlboros, old beer, onion and ass

[@HughJanus9999]

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]

😂😂

[@v.j.3029]

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]

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

[@HughJanus9999]

@@paradox_1729 poo goes in the loo not the street

[@Whatzyourdeal]

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

[@AlqantDBlank]

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.

[@amgleeson]

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]

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

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

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

[@arveedibira2454]

😂😂😂

[@Cojo77]

The blond ladies giggles made my morning 😂

[@terrencedeagle4429]

Mine too. A small and a laugh.

[@meercatmommy]

she's adorable lol

[@joejames8110]

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

[@joelt6258]

Probably all the drug addicts pooping everywhere

[@vinnartaigh2076]

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

[@praxismobius6037]

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

[@johnc3351]

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]

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

[@lulabloom4636]

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]

​@@lulabloom4636 fentanyl snack bag! XD

[@eddietat95]

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

[@gskv3331]

naah it's that someone.

[@yolobathsalts]

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

[@buck_swope]

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

[@firstlady3674]

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]

great guess. but it's just indians

[@willy4571]

something dead in the train tunnels

[@ChelleLlewes]

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]

Canada's future?

[@rafayet23]

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

[@lesliengo8347]

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.

[@kc3678]

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

[@R58-n8n]

The smell of corruption.

[@LarryNg-mx8qz]

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

[@unterhau1102]

It also helps that all of them have good hygiene... Unlike a certain demographic

[@debracook8859]

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

[@NightimeInDeepSpace]

It's pathetic and gross simpering

[@ja2z988]

literally.

[@Rosa_101]

Yea sounds like our politics too

[@bozenaszucs4191]

Start to change

[@JohnGregor-h9z]

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]

tell us then, Sherlock

[@ja2z988]

😂

[@Azure1013]

I've been hiding dead bodies down there

[@JohnGregor-h9z]

@@ruslbicycle6006 it's yo mama.

[@canuck2444]

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.

[@mahbuddykeith1124]

Piss. It’s piss, guys. Everyone knows this.

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

Exactly the clue words were rotten eggs.

[@FSSmash]

New West Station always smells like rancid fish

[@juelz4444]

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

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

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]

The poops . I hate the poops.

[@Flickit100]

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

[@islguy420]

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

[@meganhoward8820]

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

[@subdeaconk]

Guys stahp 😆

[@Movies2049]

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]

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. 😝

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

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". !!

[@robbrenton9438]

601 bus from Bridgeport to Delta is absolutely horrendous!!

[@keithquinn5624]

Nobody complained because it’s normal in india

[@VanCityDLLM]

King George Station is ground zero

[@xmontesx]

YVR is ground zero, then the ground moves to Currey

[@translinkboy1220]

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]

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

[@paulmicheals9534]

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.

[@Chris-hp2gg]

The stench of desperation.😂

[@grunf0094]

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.

[@Wong_Wei]

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

[@odellsilva345]

Exactly👳‍♂️ 🇮🇳

[@sonny9741]

Yea the white drug addicts😂😂😂

[@walkman6150]

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

[@Paul-dk8yp]

Russian malinformation!!!

[@ruslbicycle6006]

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

[@walkman6150]

@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]

@@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]

@@walkman6150well said.

[@kr6370]

Vancouver is absolutely disgusting

[@ArdynWolf]

Indian people

[@byl1997]

🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@loafization]

Whoever smelt it dealt it.

[@shmoopiebear]

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

[@denelson83]

It wasn't me!

[@tiny-kl7ob]

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

[@annegreenwood3624]

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

[@jasperchu2165]

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.

[@Netbug]

The memes write themselves.

[@moneymaker251]

Freeland and Trudope just left...

[@wendigo53]

Awesome. Pros always find a way to blame Trudeau.

[@OfficialBigDaddyBC]

I came here looking for a stupid comment, I just found it.

[@moneymaker251]

@@OfficialBigDaddyBC Another thinker

[@edwardandrews1241]

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.

[@NightimeInDeepSpace]

I wonder how many people secretly live in those tunnels.

[@Mr.Bungle-x3x]

It often happens before Huge Earthquakes like in Japan. I smelled some pretty nasty smells then bam its just all over and in Vancouver no one is prepared. At least in Tokyo they have the Oedo Line which is the deepest train line used in cases of emergency. Also the tunnels as well. Lets pray thats not he case. It would take a long long long time to get vancouver functioning again.

[@TMM6900]

Don't want to take your words 🤞

[@ruslbicycle6006]

wow, the comments section on this sure is something.

[@paulmicheals9534]

Well you have a point given the swarm off the coast.

[@mikedowd6015]

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]

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.

[@gurnooraulakh95]

Its liquid ass. Someone whose a regular at taking sky trains sprays it in the air, which smells for 7 hours or so.

[@sunatray]

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

[@gorillazfan3]

You know it smell crazy in there.

[@lich0622]

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.

Whoever smelt it dealt it😮

[@thecrowfliescrooked]

Could it be our diverse population and migrant workers?

[@Whatzyourdeal]

That’s exactly what it is

[@waggleton.p.tallylicker9431]

Oh, thats just the indians

[@chesterjackson666]

This was so funny. Gawd mainstream media stinks! 🤦‍♂

[@james-kc7xk]

IT WAS ME!!!😂😂😂

[@Cactus7810]

Haha is this a Liar Liar reference?

[@cao6496]

Going too left is good. It also smells good?

[@ryanpoirier2215]

What a shocker. Our country is starting to smell like the pile of turds its become.

[@starfishsystems]

There is a very distinctive and unpleasant pong to hydraulic fluid. It's something like skunk plus armpits plus something vaguely chemical. The skunky quality suggests reduced sulphur. This can be spectroscopically tested, but you have to be looking for it. I think that I must have first smelt it on the Montreal metro in 1974, but I didn't know what it was until working on a shaft-drive motorcycle a decade later. Once you've identified it, it's unmistakable. I'm not declaring that this necessarily is what people are detecting on the Vancouver lines, but this hot weather is exactly when you should expect it to show up, if that's what it is. And vague speculations aren't plausible alternatives just because someone can wildly imagine something else. Try to approach this scientifically, people!

[@raevenent751]

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

[@blackpanda7298]

Not the sky train smells like several asses 😂

[@kingmo565]

Did Freeland pay Burrard station a visit?

[@NutDogs]

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

[@wandererstraining]

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?

[@robhasenwinkle]

I have smelled that putrid odour for multiple years, trust me it's not just been an issue for a few months Years ago, one skytrain attendant told me he knew what it was, but I forgot what he said.

[@VeganFamily45]

It's people who have overdosed and are rotting.

[@connorm1817]

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

[@gerardwebb1945]

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

[@KoriMilo]

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.

[@calvinnickel9995]

It’s an art installation. Like that sound in Times Square but with a Vancouver twist.

[@OneRadicalDreamer]

On a different note, there's been an influx of international students from India recently eh?

[@kp_porter]

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.

[@Borisvanderoost]

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...

[@maritimerigsofficial8233]

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

[@ultimaetsolder]

Indians

[@byl1997]

Beautiful INDIANADA 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@reezdog]

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

[@Logan9312]

Vancouver Skytrain has smelled fresh compared to the Edmonton LRT

[@jasonlahey1550]

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

[@primolivingbc5138]

India

[@rafayet23]

It's obviously sewage.

[@mikegroberman247]

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

[@karl-rickbizoza2029]

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

[@paulmicheals9534]

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