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The line is owned and operated by BC Rapid Transit Company, a subsidiary of TransLink, and links the cities of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster and Surrey. The line was originally known only as "the SkyTrain" from its inception in 1985 until 2002, as it was the system's only line during this time.
The SkyTrain was conceived as a legacy project of Expo 86; its first line, the Expo Line, was finished in 1985, in time to showcase the fair's theme: Transportation and Communication. The line connected Vancouver with the cities of Burnaby and New Westminster, with the terminus stations at Waterfront and New Westminster station. [1]
New Westminster Station Edmonds New Westminster: Via 6th Street and Edmonds Street. [87] [88] 109 New Westminster Station Lougheed Station New Westminster Columbia Lougheed Town Centre [COMMUNITY SHUTTLE] [89] [90] 110 Metrotown Station Lougheed Station Metrotown Sperling–Burnaby Lake Production Way–University Lougheed Town Centre [91] [92 ...
The station is served by a bus loop and was the western terminus for the defunct 97 B-Line, which connected to Coquitlam Central station.Other bus connections to Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, and Coquitlam areas make Lougheed Town Centre station a major transportation hub for the area and one of the busiest stations on the Millennium Line.
Brentwood Town Centre station is a major regional connection point for bus routes serving north Burnaby, Metrotown, North Vancouver and New Westminster. It is also has a connection to the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). Bus bay assignments are effective as of April 6, 2020. Bus bay assignments are as follows: [6]
The station is located southwest of the intersection of Griffiths Drive and 18th Avenue, near Edmonds Street, south of Kingsway in the Edmonds area of Burnaby, British Columbia. SkyTrain's maintenance and storage facility serving both the Expo and Millennium lines is one block east of this station, linked to and from the main guideway by ...
The station houses the "New Westminster Smoke Shoppe", a small convenience store that opened with the opening of SkyTrain's formal revenue service in 1986. New Westminster Quay and River Market are two blocks south of the station, across railway tracks. Pedestrians can access the Quay via a pedestrian overpass or via a ground-level crossing.
The line only operates during peak hours on weekdays, with five trains heading west in the morning rush hour and five heading east in the afternoon rush hour. It is Canada's least-used urban rail transit system. [19] The SkyTrain is TransLink's fully-automated medium-capacity metro system. The system opened in 1985 for Expo 86.