{"id":277623,"date":"2020-12-04T03:12:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=277623"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:40:47","slug":"translink-spreads-holiday-cheer-with-nine-reindeer-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/04\/translink-spreads-holiday-cheer-with-nine-reindeer-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"TransLink spreads holiday cheer with nine Reindeer Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_277628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277628\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/reindeer-buses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277628\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/reindeer-buses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/reindeer-buses.jpg 660w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/reindeer-buses-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-277628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Reindeer Bus is part of a 35-year initiative known as Toys for Tots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Dateline\" align=\"center\"><em>Festive fleet to light up streets all over Metro Vancouver<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. \u2013TransLink is making the beloved Reindeer Bus tradition nine-times larger this year to spread much-needed holiday cheer all over Metro Vancouver. Starting tomorrow, Reindeer Buses\u00a0Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph will roll into service and brighten a street near you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u201cWe can all agree that it\u2019s been a pretty tough year,\u201d says TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy phenergan online <a href=\"https:\/\/bewellct.com\/js\/js\/phenergan.html\">https:\/\/bewellct.com\/js\/js\/phenergan.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> \u201cIf there was ever a time to boost our Reindeer Bus fleet, it\u2019s certainly now.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clomid online <a href=\"https:\/\/bewellct.com\/js\/js\/clomid.html\">https:\/\/bewellct.com\/js\/js\/clomid.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> We want to spread smiles and holiday cheer to street corners all over the region, and this is a fun way to do it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy biltricide online <a href=\"https:\/\/bewellct.com\/js\/js\/biltricide.html\">https:\/\/bewellct.com\/js\/js\/biltricide.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">The Reindeer Bus is part of a 35-year initiative known as Toys for Tots. Each year, toys and cash donations from staff at TransLink bus depots and offices are delivered from the Reindeer Bus to the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau to be distributed to low-income families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Reindeer facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 3,000 toys and over $2,000 were donated last year through Toys for Tots<\/li>\n<li>In 34 years, 84,776 toys and $48,449.05 have been donated through the initiative<\/li>\n<li>Each Reindeer Bus is named after a different reindeer guiding Santa\u2019s sleigh<\/li>\n<li>The routes the Reindeer Buses will travel on will vary each day based on scheduling by elves in each bus depot<\/li>\n<li>The buses have been decorated by Santa\u2019s elves at each bus depot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Body\">For Reindeer Bus lovers, TransLink has also launched a new line of holiday merchandise featuring the Reindeer Bus in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/translinkstore.ca\/\">online store<\/a>, just in time for any transit lover\u2019s Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festive fleet to light up streets all over Metro Vancouver NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. \u2013TransLink is making the beloved Reindeer Bus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":277628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,54365,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-instagram","category-news","mauthors-translink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284690,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277623\/revisions\/284690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}