Editing SkyTrain (Vancouver) (section)

=== Funding ===
The cost of operating SkyTrain in 2008, with an estimated 73.5{{nbsp}}million boardings, was $83{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="2008annualreport">{{cite web |title=TransLink Annual Report 2008 |publisher=TransLink |url=https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/about_translink/corporate_overview/corporate_reports/annual_reports/2008.pdf |website=TransLink.ca |access-date=April 8, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408193315/https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/about_translink/corporate_overview/corporate_reports/annual_reports/2008.pdf |archive-date=April 8, 2019}}</ref><ref name="2008perfreport">{{dead link|date=October 2012}}{{cite web |title=TransLink 2008 Financial and Performance Report |publisher=TransLink |url=http://www.translink.ca/~/media/Documents/Board/Board%202009/Board%20Meeting%2027%2003%202009/Finanical_and_Performance_Report_08.ashx |website=TransLink.ca |access-date=February 8, 2010}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> To cover this, TransLink draws mostly from transit fares, advertising ($360{{nbsp}}million in 2008) and tax ($262{{nbsp}}million from fuel taxes and $298{{nbsp}}million from property taxes in 2008), funds which are also shared with bus services, roads and bridge maintenance, and other infrastructure and services.<ref name="2008annualreport" /> The capital costs of building the system are shared with other government agencies. Capital expenses were $216{{nbsp}}million<ref name="2008annualreport" /> in 2008. For example, the cost of building the Canada Line was shared between TransLink ($335{{nbsp}}million or 22 percent), the federal government (29 percent), the provincial government (28 percent), the airport authority (19 percent), and the City of Vancouver (2 percent).<ref>{{cite report |title=Working: Annual Report 2006 |author=Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc. |url=http://www.canadaline.ca/files/uploads/docs/doc796.pdf |page=33 |access-date=June 17, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621182644/http://www.canadaline.ca/files/uploads/docs/doc796.pdf |archive-date=June 21, 2007}}</ref> While TransLink has run surpluses for operating costs since 2001,<ref name="2005annualreport">{{cite web |title=TransLink Annual Report 2005 |publisher=TransLink |website=TransLink.ca |url=https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/about_translink/corporate_overview/corporate_reports/annual_reports/2005.pdf |pages=12, 22, 38, 45 |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408193525/https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/about_translink/corporate_overview/corporate_reports/annual_reports/2005.pdf |archive-date=April 8, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=TransLink Annual Report 2003 |publisher=TransLink |url=https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/about_translink/corporate_overview/corporate_reports/annual_reports/2003.pdf |page=22 |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408085909/https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/about_translink/corporate_overview/corporate_reports/annual_reports/2003.pdf |archive-date=April 8, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> it incurs debt to cover these capital costs. As a whole, TransLink had $1.1{{nbsp}}billion in long-term debt in 2006, of which $508{{nbsp}}million was transferred from the province in 1999 when responsibility for SkyTrain was given to TransLink.<ref name="2005annualreport" /><ref>{{cite report |title=Debt Statistics 1998/99 |author=Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations |publisher=British Columbia |url=http://www.fin.gov.bc.ca/debtmgmt/debtstat98-99.pdf |date=August 31, 1999 |page=5 |access-date=June 17, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621182644/http://www.fin.gov.bc.ca/debtmgmt/debtstat98-99.pdf |archive-date=June 21, 2007}}</ref> The province retained ownership of the causeway, bridge, certain services, and a portion of SkyTrain's debt.<ref>{{cite web |title=TransLink board-inbrief- April 17, 2003 |url=http://www.richmond.ca/__shared/assets/042803_pg322841.pdf |publisher=[[Greater Vancouver Regional District]] |access-date=December 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225134427/http://www.richmond.ca/__shared/assets/042803_pg322841.pdf |archive-date=February 25, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>