List of Vancouver SkyTrain Stations

List Of Vancouver SkyTrain Stations

The Vancouver SkyTrain is a three-line urban mass transit system operated by TransLink, which serves the metropolitan area of Vancouver, Canada. The Expo Line was built for the Expo 86 World's Fair; the Millennium Line opened in 2002, followed by the Canada Line in 2009. The Expo and Millennium Line use Bombardier's Advanced Rapid Transit technology, while the Canada Line technology provided by Hyundai Rotem. The SkyTrain's track makes up the longest automated light rapid transit system in the world by length, with a length of 68.7 kilometres (42.7 mi).

The SkyTrain was conceived as a legacy project of Expo 86 and the first line was finished in 1985 in time to showcase the fair's theme: "Transportation and Communication: World in Motion – World in Touch". The SkyTrain connected Downtown Vancouver with Burnaby and New Westminster, and was originally terminated at New Westminster Station. In 1989, the SkyTrain expanded to the one station southeast to Columbia Station. The Skybridge, the longest mass transit-only bridge, and Scott Road Station were added in 1990, extending the service to Surrey. The line was expanded once more with the Gateway, Surrey Central, and King George stations in 1994. TransLink, which took over BC Transit's SkyTrain operation, proposed a two-phase expansion: The first phase was a C$1.2 billion Millennium Line from New Westminster to the Vancouver Community College via Lougheed Town Centre. The second phase was a C$730 million Coquitlam line from Lougheed Town Centre to Coquitlam Centre via Port Moody and a Western Line from Vancouver Community College to Granville Street via the Broadway Corridor. The first phase, now known as the Millennium Line, began operating in 2002. The line, serving north of Vancouver, Burnaby, and New Westminster, originally added ten stations; Lake City Way opened later in 2003, and VCC–Clark opened in 2006, which completed the Millennium Line. In 2004, TransLink approved a 19-kilometre (12 mi) line connecting Vancouver with Richmond and the Vancouver International Airport (YVR), which at the time was projected to cost $1.72 billion. The line, now known as the Canada Line, opened in August 2009. The second Phase II segment, the Evergreen Line, is scheduled to start operations by 2014.

There are 47 stations on the SkyTrain system. 20 stations are served by the Expo Line, 28 by the Millennium Line, and 16 by the Canada Line—Waterfront is served by all three lines, while 15 other stations are served by both the Expo and Millennium lines. Vancouver and Burnaby has a total of 31 stations, 20 and 11 respectively, and make up 66 percent of the stations. Waterfront is the northbound terminal for all three lines, King George is the southbound terminal for the Expo Line, VCC–Clark is the westbound terminal of the Millennium Line, and Richmond–Brighouse and YVR–Airport are the southbound terminals for the two Canada Line branches. In terms of average weekday station boardings in 2003, Commercial–Broadway is the most highly used station, while Sapperton is the least.