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Platform level at King George in March 2019. King George is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in the south end of the Surrey City Centre district of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, and is one of the outbound termini of the Expo Line, the other being Production Way–University station.
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]
The Surrey Langley SkyTrain Project is a 16-kilometre (9.9 mi) elevated extension of the Expo Line from King George SkyTrain Station in Surrey to 203 Street in Langley City, routed mostly along Fraser Highway. [17]
The Expo Line connects Waterfront station in Vancouver to King George station in Surrey, principally along a route established by the Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Company as an interurban line in 1890. [15] The Expo Line (originally referred to as simply "SkyTrain" until the opening of the Millennium Line) was built in 1985 in time for ...
The line was expanded yet again in 1994 with the opening of the Gateway, Surrey Central, and King George stations. SkyTrain was part of the 1996 Greater Vancouver Regional District's (GVRD) Livable Region Strategic Plan, which discussed strategies to deal with the anticipated increase of population in the region. These strategies included ...
Mark I vehicles are composed of mated pairs and normally run as six-car trains, but can also be run in two- and four-car configurations. The maximum based on station platform lengths is a six-car configuration, totaling 72 metres (236 ft 2 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) The SkyTrain fleet currently includes 150 Mark I trains. [9]
Skytrain shut down on Sept. 15 after inspectors found ‘extensive structural cracking’ on a few concrete piers holding up the tracks the trains use, according to records released last month by ...
The Surrey Centre Library and City Hall are adjacent to the station. Platform level at Surrey Central. Surrey Central is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in the Whalley / City Centre district of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, just east of the North Surrey ...