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The Millennium Line is the second line in the SkyTrain rapid transit system in Greater Vancouver, Canada. The line is owned and operated by TransLink.

History

When the Expo Line opened in 1986, an extension to Lougheed Mall in east Burnaby was proposed. When the line was extended to Scott Road Station in Surrey in 1990, a spur track was built just east of Columbia Station in anticipation of such an extension. Finally in the late 1990s, the British Columbia government announced that an entirely new line would be built from Vancouver to Columbia Station via Lougheed Mall (served by Lougheed Town Centre Station), as the first part of a future line extending into Coquitlam.

The Millennium Line opened in 2002, with Lake City Way Station opening a year later in 2003. Millennium Line trains follow the Expo Line from Waterfront to Columbia, then loop back into Vancouver via a new route, terminating at Commercial Drive station, where there is a connection to Broadway Station on the Expo Line. (For a few months before full opening of the line, trains ran only as far as Braid Station in eastern New Westminster.) Construction is currently underway to extend the Millennium Line westward from Commercial Drive to VCC [Vancouver Community College] Station in Vancouver, with the extension due to open in 2005.

Route description

The Millennium Line tracks pass through a tunnel for about 1 km east of Columbia Station, then are elevated above the CN/BNSF right-of-way through eastern New Westminster. From Lougheed Town Centre, the line is elevated, running down the middle or along the side of Lougheed Highway to just west of Brentwood Town Centre, where it picks up the CN/BNSF right-of-way again, being elevated until Renfrew Station, then travelling through a ground-level cut to Commercial Drive.

List of stations

From Waterfront to Columbia Stations, Expo and Millennium Line trains stop at the same stations.

  • Waterfront (transfer to SeaBus, West Coast Express, and proposed RAV Line)
  • Burrard
  • Granville
  • Stadium
  • Main Street-Science World
  • Broadway (transfer to Commercial Drive Station, also on the Millennium Line)
  • Nanaimo
  • 29th Avenue
  • Joyce
  • Patterson
  • Metrotown
  • Royal Oak
  • Edmonds
  • 22nd Street
  • New Westminster
  • Columbia (junction with the Expo Line to King George)
  • Columbia
  • Sapperton
  • Braid
  • Lougheed Town Centre
  • Production-University
  • Lake City Way
  • Sperling-Burnaby Lake
  • Holdom
  • Brentwood Town Centre
  • Gilmore
  • Rupert
  • Renfrew
  • Commercial Drive (transfer to Broadway Station on combined Expo/Millennium Lines)
  • VCC (due to open in 2005)
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