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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 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.
[3] [8] 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]
The Provincial government sold the railway to the Itel Rail Group in 1988. The railway was renamed the Southern Railway of British Columbia. The line was originally built in 1910 as the British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER), an interurban trolley service for passengers (until 1950s) as well as for freight such as farm produce.
The Expo Line and Millennium Line link downtown to the suburbs of Burnaby, New Westminster, Surrey, and Coquitlam. A third rapid transit line connecting downtown Vancouver to central Richmond and the Vancouver International Airport, known as the Canada Line, started operation on August 17, 2009.
SkyTrain is the medium-capacity rapid transit system serving the Metro Vancouver region in British Columbia, Canada. [9] 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.
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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]