Transportation

More health and safety workers will be deployed at airports later this week

What happened: Uber and Lyft have begun operating in Vancouver after receiving authorization from ICBC, and provincial and municipal authorities Why it matters: Vancouver was previously the largest city in North America not to offer ride-hailing Ride

Break out your binoculars to watch the two new Island-class hybrid-electric ferries float off their partially submerged carrier vessel into local waters on Friday morning.

What happened: Applications from Uber and Lyft to operate ride-hailing services in B.C.

New disease known as 2019-nCoV has so far killed 18, sickened 600

Signage to be added, and health-screening question to be added to electronic border kiosks but no temperature-screening yet

'West Side Plus' option priced at between $30 and $40 million

Sea-Tac’s new US$968m passenger handling facility targets international business

Protesters blocked access to B.C. Ferries’ Swartz Bay ferry terminal this morning, delaying the 7a.m. sailings to the Lower Mainland and Gulf Islands to support Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in northern B.C.

What happened: The province is now accepting applications for e-scooter pilot projects Why it matters: The devices are banned from roads and sidewalks, but the pilot will allow their deployment in some communities for as long as three years Commuters