44-538: Expo Line may refer to: Expo Line (SkyTrain) , a rapid transit line in Greater Vancouver, Canada E Line (Los Angeles Metro) , a light rail line in Los Angeles County, California, United States; formerly known as the "Expo Line" Expo Bike Path , a rail with trail bicycle path and pedestrian route that travels roughly parallel to the line Expo Express ,
88-643: A 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) second extension, or Phase III, began in late 1991 and opened on March 28, 1994, adding three stations in Surrey 's City Centre district in Whalley . Private partnerships with surrounding businesses in the community led to the then-new stations having a different appearance from the rest of the Expo Line. This extension set one of the Expo Line's current eastern terminus at King George station. It also added Gateway and Surrey Central stations. In 2002,
132-604: A business case concluded that building and operating a gondola would cost $ 12 million more compared to continuing to serve the SFU campus by bus. Therefore, the construction of a gondola was shelved. In December 2018, Kevin Desmond, TransLink's CEO, indicated that while a gondola to SFU had been added to the second phase of the TransLink 10-Year Investment Plan in 2018, its construction hinged on funding from senior levels of government. As there
176-519: A former rapid transit line in Montreal, Canada Line 13 (Shanghai Metro) , a rapid transit line in Shanghai, China, also known as the "Expo Line" See also [ edit ] Expo Station (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Expo Line . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
220-505: A lack of standardized parts, and the wish to introduce automated computer technology to drive the trains. Following the demonstration project, construction of the first phase of the Expo Line between Vancouver and New Westminster got under way in mid-1983, with guideway construction nearing completion by late 1984, and station construction beginning in early 1985. On December 11, 1985, SkyTrain began providing free weekend service, with full revenue service opening on January 3, 1986. Phase I
264-450: A tunnel and then elevated until it terminates at Production Way–University in Burnaby. From just west of Nanaimo station all the way to New Westminster station, the Expo Line follows BC Electric's former Central Park Line, which carried interurbans between Vancouver and New Westminster from 1890 to the early 1950s. What is now known as SkyTrain began as a demonstration project to showcase
308-536: Is an elevated station on the Expo and Millennium Lines of Metro Vancouver 's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located at the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Production Way in Burnaby , British Columbia, Canada. Initially a Millennium Line station, a reorganization of SkyTrain service patterns in 2016 made Production Way–University a terminus for a branch of the Expo Line. Production Way–University station
352-444: Is no crossover at the station itself, terminating Expo Line trains proceed to a crossover located 650 metres (2,130 ft) west of the station to reverse. The main point of entry to Production Way–University station is located on the western side of the stationhouse at the northeast corner of Production Way and Lougheed Highway . A secondary entrance is located adjacent to the stations bus exchange. Bays 1 to 3 are located inside
396-440: Is the terminus of the 145 bus route running to SFU, which carries just over half of all bus traffic to the university. The station's commercial spaces include a convenience store and several restaurants. The station also has a 220-space parking lot. The SFU Community Trust has proposed extending the TransLink system from this station through the installation of a tri-cable gondola lift that would travel up Burnaby Mountain to
440-554: The 2020 provincial election campaign, the BC NDP pledged to work with senior levels of government to obtain the $ 1.5 billion needed to complete the full extension to Langley. On July 9, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the federal government would provide up to $ 1.3 billion to build the SkyTrain extension to Langley in a single phase. At that time, the cost of
484-692: The Millennium Line opened and shared the same track alignment with the Expo Line from Waterfront station in Downtown Vancouver to Columbia station in New Westminster . At Columbia, the two lines diverged, with the Expo Line crossing the Fraser River towards Surrey City Centre and the Millennium Line entering a short tunnel towards northeastern New Westminster and North Burnaby. In late 2016,
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#1732837578420528-534: The SkyTrain rapid transit system in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia , Canada. 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. In 2002, after
572-534: The Urban Transportation Development Corporation (now part of Bombardier ). Construction began on March 1, 1982, and was completed in early 1983. The demonstration project consisted of just one station and about one kilometre of guideway with no switches. This original station was not "named" during this time as it was the only station, but then in 1985 opened as Main Street station . As it
616-682: The 80-metre (260 ft) length of the Mark V trainsets, but no service interruptions will be necessary. 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. Anticipated to open in late 2028, it will be built in one phase (a change from earlier plans) and include
660-451: The Expo Line. The $ 1.65 billion in funding that was earmarked for the light rail project was intended to be used to construct part of this extension to Langley but was insufficient to fund the entire extension, with $ 1.9 billion more needed to complete the project. The existing funding would extend the line 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to Fleetwood in Surrey and add 4 new stations, terminating at 166th Street. On July 25, 2019,
704-514: The Mayors' Council voted to extend the Expo Line to Fleetwood using the existing funds. The council also voted to proceed with preparing a detailed business case for the full Surrey–Langley SkyTrain extension, which was expected to be completed by early 2020. If approved by the end of the third quarter of 2020, construction would have started in early 2022, with revenue service to Fleetwood projected to have started in late 2025. On October 8, 2020, during
748-543: The SFU Transit Exchange. The proposed lift would use a 30-passenger Doppelmayr Garaventa 3S Gondola, the same model as the Whistler Blackcomb Peak 2 Peak Gondola . The Trust has proposed the gondola because it felt the system is not weather-dependent like buses, cheaper to maintain, and more environmentally friendly. The provincial government commissioned a feasibility study for the proposal, but in 2012,
792-763: The SkyTrain system underwent a service change in preparation for the opening of the Evergreen Extension , resulting in a new branch of the Expo Line serving four stations that were originally built for the Millennium Line. On October 22, 2016, this branch began service from Columbia to Sapperton , Braid , Lougheed Town Centre , and Production Way–University stations, while the Millennium Line began running between VCC–Clark and Lougheed Town Centre (and later, Lafarge Lake–Douglas ) stations, effectively ending nearly 15 years of Millennium Line service between Waterfront and Braid. The main Expo Line service between Waterfront and King George stations remained in place, operating at
836-491: The SkyTrain yards at Edmonds station in Burnaby . The line travels underground for a short stretch between New Westminster and Columbia stations. Just east of Columbia is a junction where the line splits. One branch crosses the Fraser River , via the SkyBridge , and is elevated for the rest of its run through Surrey , with King George as its terminus station. The other branch continues through New Westminster, first through
880-650: The South of Fraser region. In addition to SkyTrain, light rail and bus rapid transit were also in consideration. In 2016, TransLink was building dual business cases for LRT and SkyTrain technologies. 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 . This extension would be 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) long and add eight stations to
924-423: The carpeting, wax floors of the same colour were installed between 1992 and 1993. In the planning of the original line, a proposed future station at Boundary Road and Kingsway, or "Boundary station" was to be included to serve employees of BCTel. However, the proposal was scrapped largely due to a fear of the station attracting crime to the neighbourhood and noise-level concerns. The first extension, or Phase II,
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#1732837578420968-524: The exception of the original ICTS guideway, no other part of the Expo Line required retrofitting for strength in order to accommodate the Mark II cars. After the 1983 preview closed, the single pair of demonstration cars were sent back to Ontario, which have since served as test trains for the UTDC. The subsequent trains ordered for Expo were designed slightly differently from the demo train set because of issues such as
1012-411: The first few years of revenue service until the early 1990s, all trains were lined with carpeting, and train doors did not open automatically but rather at the push of buttons on the interior and exterior of the trains when docked in stations. This on-demand system reflected the small-scale ridership SkyTrain had before Vancouver experienced a major population boost. Due to an inability to steadily maintain
1056-632: The following eight stations: The 2008 Provincial Transit Plan included a 6-kilometre (3.7 mi) extension from King George station in Surrey east to Guildford , then along 152 Street to Fraser Highway and southeast to 168 Street; a further extension to Willowbrook Shopping Centre in Langley Township was also included in the plan. In 2011, as part of phase 2 of the Surrey Rapid Transit Study, different possibilities were examined for expanding rapid transit along multiple corridors in
1100-409: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Expo_Line&oldid=1181276241 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Expo Line (SkyTrain) The Expo Line is the oldest line of
1144-516: The main site of the world's fair, to the Canadian pavilion at Waterfront station. Waterfront station was divided in two, with a fence going down the centre of the platform. One side of the platform was used exclusively for the shuttles, and was accessible only from the Canada Place entrance, while the other side was only for revenue service and was only accessible from the main entrance to the east. For
1188-524: The newly developed linear induction propulsion technology to Vancouver and other prospective cities throughout the world. Although Toronto's Scarborough RT was completed before the Expo Line in 1985, the ICTS demonstration was the first system to use SkyTrain technology. The Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) demonstration was built using the Advanced Rapid Transit (ART) technology developed by
1232-606: The opening of the system's second line, the Millennium Line , the original line was given the name "Expo Line". The new name was in recognition of Expo 86 (the World's Fair that Vancouver hosted in 1986) as the transit system had been built in large part as a showcase and an attraction for that fair. The line is elevated from Stadium–Chinatown to New Westminster stations, except for short at-grade sections between Nanaimo and Joyce–Collingwood stations in East Vancouver , and around
1276-501: The previous Mark III trains; however, each train will have an additional carriage and will have more internal space. Each five-car Mark V train will be able to hold 672 passengers regularly, both seated and standing, with a potential crush capacity of up to 1,207 passengers. The order will provide for both an increase in the number of trainsets and ultimately a total replacement of the mid-1980s to early 1990s Mark I rolling stock. Construction will be required at some stations to accommodate
1320-406: The production trains. The whereabouts of these trains is unknown. The ICTS guideway was retrofitted during the construction of the Millennium Line to accommodate the heavier weight Mark II cars. This was done by adding additional steel-reinforced concrete beams to the columns where they support the guideway. These are clearly visible when driving or walking on Terminal Avenue under the guideway. With
1364-421: The project was estimated between $ 3.8 and $ 3.95 billion in total, more than $ 650 million in excess of the earlier $ 3.13 billion estimate from TransLink, with the rest of the funding being split between TransLink and the provincial government. The full extension to Langley was planned to be constructed as a single project rather than in two phases and is scheduled to open in 2028. In July 2022,
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1408-431: The provincial government officially approved this one-phase plan. Procurement for contractors was slated to start later in 2022, with major construction expected to begin in 2024. On March 7, 2024, the provincial Ministry of Transportation announced that SkyLink Guideway Partners had been selected to build the elevated guideway for the extension. Production Way%E2%80%93University station Production Way–University
1452-620: The rest of the SkyTrain network. The 2023 fleet consists of six-car Mark I trains using the Innovia ART 100, two- and four-car Mark II trains (operating in coupled pairs of two cars) using the Innovia ART 200, and four-car Mark III trains using the Innovia Metro 300. Before the purchase of some Mark II vehicles in 2009, the Expo line was operating at capacity while carrying 12,000 passengers per hour per direction (pphpd). Its ultimate design capacity
1496-454: The same frequency levels. The Expo Line uses a fleet of Innovia ART and Innovia Metro trains built by Bombardier Transportation (now Alstom ). Like the Millennium Line, the trains are powered by linear induction motors rather than the conventional electric (rotary) motors used on the Canada Line. Expo Line trains are operated by the same SelTrac automated train control system used in
1540-556: The same time, the Millennium Line service was altered with trains running between VCC–Clark and Lougheed Town Centre stations – later extended to Lafarge Lake–Douglas station when service began on the Evergreen Extension ;– instead of the previous service between VCC–Clark and Waterfront stations. Production Way–University station is a major transfer point for Simon Fraser University , as well as providing connections to local suburban buses. It
1584-430: The south platform, what is now the eastbound platform. This car was not operational. The two-car train and single car mock up were of a different and unique design to all the production Mark I trains. The red tail lights were located on the bottom beside the headlights, instead of at the top. The end door and window were of a different design. As well, there were black panels on either side of the door, that are not found in
1628-461: The west end of the platform where the Vancity head office now stands. The ICTS guideway was built differently from the rest of the Expo Line. The columns were different especially with how they are joined with the guideway. The walkway between the two tracks is of a different but also inferior design from the Expo Line, and it is showing signs of rust that come with the older age of the guideway. There
1672-442: Was 19,400 pphpd using six-car Mark I trains operating at 93-second headways. However, exclusively operating a fleet of five-car trains would increase the capacity to 25,700 pphpd if Mark II trains were used. Several options have been considered over the system's history to increase capacity on the Expo Line, including: In late 2020, TransLink ordered 41 Alstom Mark V trainsets in five-car configurations. These trains are based on
1716-421: Was 21.4 kilometres (13.3 mi) in length, starting at Waterfront station and terminating at New Westminster station . The newly built system had limited Sunday service until 1990, and shorter revenue hours during weekdays than SkyTrain's current revenue schedule as of 2010. During Expo 86, special shuttle trains ran from a third track at Stadium station, where there was a connection to the monorail serving
1760-470: Was a showcase station, Main Street had a different initial design from other stations on the Expo Line that came after it. For example, glass was featured in the station's design, but was missing from other original Expo Line stations, except Stadium station (now Stadium–Chinatown) since it was tied to the Expo grounds. Having preceded other stations on the line by three years, Main Street–Science World
1804-417: Was only a single two-car train running on the north westbound track. After passengers boarded, it ran east toward the end of the test guideway. At the eastern end, the train would stop and after a pause, reverse directions and return to the station. Since there were no switches, only the northern track was used and the train would run back and forth on the same track. There was also a single car mock up parked on
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1848-489: Was opened in 2002 as part of the original Millennium Line project. The station was designed by the architecture firm Hotson Bakker Architects. In 2016, SkyTrain service was reconfigured in anticipation of the opening of the Evergreen Extension ; as a result, Production Way–University station became a terminus station of an Expo Line branch running between this station and Waterfront station in Downtown Vancouver. At
1892-470: Was split into two parts. Construction began in 1987, with Columbia station opening on February 14, 1989, adding 600 metres (2,000 ft) of guideway in the City of New Westminster. The second segment opened on March 16, 1990, and included Scott Road station in Surrey , crossing the Fraser River via the purpose-built, cable-stayed " SkyBridge ", adding 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) to the line. Construction of
1936-409: Was visibly older, and signs of rust and wear were showing before extensive renovations to the station were completed in 2014. The guideway for the showcase line was a straight section east of the station running over Terminal Avenue. It ended across from where the former Brussels Chocolate factory once was, located on Terminal. There was no guideway west of the station as the track ended immediately at
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