SkyTrain (Vancouver)

The SkyTrain is the rapid transit (RT) railway system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is run by TransLink. The trains run on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. until around 12:30 a.m. On weekends, they run on shorter hours during for the Expo and Millennium lines.

Construction for the first line of the SkyTrain started on March 1, 1982. It was first opened on December 11, 1985.

There are three lines: the Expo, Millennium, and Canada. Along with the lines, there are 54 stations and 13 under construction. The total length of all three lines is 79.6 km, and an additional 21.7 km is under construction.

The SkyTrain was at one point the longest fully automated driverless system in the world. It is also the longest rapid transit system in Canada. There is an average of 446,400 passenger trips each weekday (as of 2023).

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