Vancouver - Canada (01/22/2010) Raymond Bachant, President Bombardier Transportation North America, and Gregor Robertson, Mayor of the City of Vancouver, inaugurated on Thursday the Olympic Line, a 1.8-kilometre street car tram line, running on south False Creek and connecting Granville Island to the Athletes Village and the Canada Line. The service on the line will be operated by two BOMBARDIER FLEXITY streetcars. The 100% low floor streetcars will be used to provide free service 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, between January 21 and March 21, 2010. It has to be noticed that the two vehicles are a loan from the Brussels Transport Company STIB (Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles) and they will be sent back after the Games, when the Olympic Line will stop running. However, there are high hopes that this project could be an important step to encourage people of Vancouver to take more transit even when the Games will be over. As Raymond Bachant said: “We are confident that these award-winning vehicles will demonstrate the potential role that streetcars could play in the future of transportation in Metro Vancouver”.