The Millennium Line is the second line of 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, Coquitlam and Port Moody. The line was opened in 2002 and was named in recognition of the new millennium.
A pair of trains at Brentwood Town Centre station
Commercial Drive station under construction in September 2001
Staging pit for the tunnel boring machine at the site of Great Northern Way–Emily Carr station in April 2022
"Traffic decks" were built atop station construction sites to avoid road closures.
SkyTrain is the medium-capacity rapid transit system serving the Metro Vancouver region in British Columbia, Canada. SkyTrain has 79.6 km (49.5 mi) of track and uses fully automated trains on grade-separated tracks running on underground and elevated guideways, allowing SkyTrain to hold consistently high on-time reliability. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 141,339,300, or about 446,400 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
A ticket vending machine (right), next to an old faresaver validator (2006)
Fare gates at New Westminster (2018)
Interior of a Mark I train travelling along the Expo Line between Commercial–Broadway and Main Street–Science World station (2019)
Canada Line trains at Vancouver International Airport (2008)