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English: Map of Vancouver's Skytrain, SeaBus, B-Line, and WCE network. Date: 28 April 2017: Source: Own work: ... TransLink (British Columbia) Transportation in ...
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]
In 2016, TransLink was building dual business cases for LRT and SkyTrain technologies. [ 23 ] In November 2018, following a change of government in Surrey, the Metro Vancouver Mayors' Council voted to indefinitely suspend the at-grade Surrey light rail project in favour of extending the Expo Line from King George station to Langley City .
The second-generation Mark II trains also feature interactive LED maps, destination boards in the front and back windows of the train, more handlebars, door indicator lights, and video cameras. [16] These cars were painted in the newer TransLink livery appearing on buses at the time.
TransLink, formally the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority and previously the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, is the statutory authority [6] responsible for the regional transportation network of Metro Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, including public transport, major roads and bridges.
TransLink major route map (2016) Transportation in Vancouver, British Columbia, has many of the features of modern cities worldwide. Unlike many large metropolises, Vancouver has no freeways into or through the downtown area. A proposed freeway through the downtown was rejected in the 1960s by a coalition of citizens, community leaders and ...
That same month, TransLink reaffirmed a Vancouver–Richmond line including a connection to the airport, and approved a recommendation by the TransLink CEO that, based on greater benefits from a private-sector perspective and community concerns, at-grade rail transit be excluded from further analysis and that analysis in Vancouver be restricted ...