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TransLink's Reindeer Bus has hit the road for the holidays

Well this is destined to make your commute 100% jollier: TransLink's Reindeer Bus has hit the road for the holiday season.

Well this is destined to make your commute 100% jollier: TransLink's Reindeer Bus has hit the road for the holiday season.

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The Vancouver Transit Centre transforms into Santa's Workshop each year, as employees busy themselves making the pieces needed to turn this regular city bus into a rolling Rudolph, complete with specially-crafted antlers, eyes, and big red nose.

Plus, the bus is fitted with tons of sparkling holiday lights inside and out. Check it out on the go via this dashcam clip shared to Reddit.

It's been a tradition in Vancouver for TransLink to decorate one bus and one shuttle for the holiday season each year since 1985. Of late it's been bus number 9543 in the fleet, and that bus has been running on route 25, but TransLink says " it will be running on various routes throughout Vancouver," this holiday season.

For another reindeer bus experience, you can book tickets on the Transit Museum Society's annual Christmas lights tour on a vintage BC Transit bus that's all decked out Rudolph-style.