Millennium Line

The Millennium Line is a line of SkyTrain Vancouver, the transport system of the agglomeration Metro Vancouver in Canada. The standard gauge line is 20.3 km long and has 13 stations. It was opened on 5 January 2002 and connects Vancouver with Burnaby and New Westminster. Owned and operated by the transport company Translink. The trains run automatically with linear motors.

Route

From the Waterfront Station in downtown Vancouver to Columbia station in New Westminster, the Millennium Line runs on the same route as the Expo Line. After branching underground station the line passes through a 1 km long tunnel and then elevated above the line of CN and BNSF through the eastern part of New Westminster. The Millennium Line runs through the southern part of Coquitlam, but without holding there.

After crossing the Trans-Canada Highway, the Lougheed Town Centre station is reached where an interchange with future Evergreen Line is planned. The route continues on stilts in the middle lane or on the side of the Lougheed Highway to the west of the station Brentwood Town Centre, where she meets again on the path of CN and BNSF. Between Gilmore and Rupert of the Trans-Canada Highway is crossed a second time. According to Renfrew, the route runs through an incision to the terminus VCC -Clark, at Commercial Drive it intersects it yourself

History

In 1986, the Expo Line was opened, an extension of the distance to the shopping center Lougheed Mall in east Burnaby was planned from the Royal Oak station and along the Edmonds Street. This plan was never realized. In the late 1990s the government gave the province of British Columbia to build an entirely new line known that should of VCC -Clark after Lougheed Town Centre run (near the mall ). This should be the first section of a "T -Line", which should result in the second phase of Coquitlam. The provincial government decided to use the system from Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit, which connects to the maintenance workshop at the Expo Line was necessary.

Since the construction of this connection to the station to Broadway as proved impractical, both lines should be connected in New Westminster each other instead. At the north end of Skybridge course opened in 1990 has been implemented; During this work, the bridge was only one lane. In the station Lougheed Town Centre, the branch line should branch off Coquitlam, which is why there was a third platform. After a change of government in this part of the project was abandoned.

The opening of the first section of the Millennium Line was carried out on 5 January 2002, the trains were initially between the stations Waterfront and Braid. The second section to Commercial Drive was followed on 31 August of the same year. On 21 November 2003, the station Lake City Way was opened on the existing line. Since January 6, 2006, the trains continue to VCC -Clark.

Projects

There are plans to meet the long term to extend the Millennium Line west to Cambie Street. This would create a transfer possibility to extend in a north-south direction Canada Line, which is scheduled to open in 2009. A further extension to the campus of the University of British Columbia appears in view of the high cost, however, does not make sense.

The Evergreen Line from Lougheed Town Centre to Coquitlam replaced the originally planned Phase II of the Millennium Line. This is not a SkyTrain line, but a light rail. The opening was scheduled for 2009, but will be delayed for at least two years ( through the reuse of tunnel boring machines used to build the Canada Line cost savings can be achieved ).