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SkyTrain is the medium-capacity rapid transit system serving the Metro Vancouver region in British Columbia, Canada. [10] SkyTrain has 79.6 km (49.5 mi) of track and uses fully automated trains on grade-separated tracks running on underground and elevated guideways, allowing SkyTrain to hold consistently high on-time reliability.
SkyTrain system map. The Vancouver SkyTrain is a three-line urban mass transit system in the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, managed by TransLink.The Expo Line was built for the Expo 86 World's Fair; [1] the Millennium Line opened in 2002, [2] followed by the Canada Line in 2009, which was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics. [3]
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The system serves Vancouver and many of its surrounding municipalities in the Metro Vancouver Regional District. The Expo Line is named after Expo 86, for which it was originally constructed. It connects Waterfront station, an intermodal transit station in Downtown Vancouver, with Burnaby, New Westminster, and northwest Surrey. It roughly ...
[citation needed] Two-car trains only operate during train maintenance and testing at the BCRTC Edmonds Maintenance and Storage Facility in Burnaby. In 2013, the oldest 114 Mark I cars began being refurbished to extend their intended lifespan another fifteen years, from 2011 to 2026. [ 11 ]
Most of the remaining portion began operating later that year, serving North Burnaby and East Vancouver. Phase I of the Millennium Line was completed $50 million under budget. [16] Critics of the project dubbed it the "SkyTrain to Nowhere", claiming that the route of the new line was based on political concerns, not the needs of commuters. [17]
Metrotown is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system, and is located along Central Boulevard, directly across from the Metropolis at Metrotown shopping centre, in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. As of 2022, it is the second-busiest station in the SkyTrain system. [2]
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