Vancouver Skytrain
Vancouver Skytrain Fares:
1 zone $2.50, 2 zone $3.75, 3 zone $5.00
Vancouver Skytrain Hours:
Expo Line
First train: 5am
Last train: 12:30am
Millennium Line:
First train: 5am
Last train: 12am
Canada Line
First train: 4:50 am
Last train: 12:48am
Vancouver Skytrain Park n ride Locations:
Easily park your car before you get on the train. There are Park and Ride locations throughout the suburbs.
Burnaby
Production Way - University Station
Spaces: 220 parking spaces
Location: Lougheed Highway at Production Way
Hours: Monday to Friday (except holidays) from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday & Sunday closed.
Coquitlam
Coquitlam Station
Spaces: 614 parking spaces
Location: Johnson Street at Barnet Highway
Hours: Available all week
Delta
Ladner Exchange
Spaces: 200 parking spaces
Location: Clarence Taylor Cres. and Harvest Drive
Hours: Available all week
South Delta Recreation Centre
Spaces: 75 parking spaces
Location: 56th Street at 18th Avenue
Hours: Monday to Friday (except holidays) from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Langley
Walnut Grove
Spaces: 186 designated parking spaces at SportsPlex Parkade
Location: 91A Avenue at 202nd Street
Hours: Monday to Friday (except holidays) from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Official Skytrain Websites:
http://www.skytrain.info/
http://www.translink.ca/
About The Vancouver Skytrain
Vancouver has officially become a major city with the introduction of the Skytrain. It moves Vancouverites north south east and in a few years, west to UBC. It has been a long time coming and the subject of many debates but now that it is her Vancouverites cannot remember living without it. As Expo approached in 1986, local government realized that Vancouver, like many cities, had outgrown its present bus system. Over the last 100 years, it had grown to the point that there weren’t enough buses to support the demand. An above ground rapid transit system was designed and built to accommodate the growing population and the throngs of visitors coming to Expo 1986.
The solution to the potential problem of lack of space, people and was a rapid transit system that was built over above ground ‘guide-ways’ and through existing tunnels and was in line with the right-of-way of the old interurban train line, that was built in the early 20th century. Very little land had to be bought by Translink and neighborhoods were temporarily put out of order but it was all for the good of the environment.
Vancouver Sky Train Facts and History
There was one line built initially that began downtown at Waterfront station and stretched east to Surrey. The Expo line opened just in time for Expo 1986. It was completely automated and ran mechanically without conductors.
Another line was built to North Burnaby and new Westminster called the Millennium Line. It was opened in 2002.
Then Vancouver was chosen to host the 2010 Olympics. The same problem reared its head again how was Vancouver going to support even more visitors and an even bigger population? The solution: another Skytrain line, this one starting at the airport in Richmond and going downtown to Waterfront Station. Construction began in 2005 and was completed in 2009 just before the 2010 winter Olympiad.
Now 2 million Vancouverites can whiz around the city on a modern Skytrain. The Skytrain is what Vancouver needed – and now there is talk of a western line that will decrease the numbers of cars going to and from UBC. With no sign of the city getting smaller- it might just be what Vancouver needs!