Editing SkyTrain (Vancouver) (section)

=== Millennium Line ===
[[File:Skytrain-below.jpg|right|thumb|A Mark I train passing by in the Grandview Cut between [[VCC–Clark station|VCC–Clark]] and Commercial–Broadway stations (2006)]]
{{Main|Millennium Line}}
The first section of the Millennium Line opened in 2002, with [[Braid station|Braid]] and [[Sapperton station|Sapperton]] stations. Most of the remaining portion began operating later that year, serving [[North Burnaby]] and [[East Vancouver]]. Phase I of the Millennium Line was completed $50{{nbsp}}million under budget. Critics of the project dubbed it the "SkyTrain to Nowhere", claiming that the route of the new line was based on political concerns, not the needs of commuters.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Paul |title=B.C.'s SkyTrain to Nowhere |newspaper=Globe and Mail |date=January 8, 2002 |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/bcs-skytrain-to-nowhere/article752468/ |access-date=June 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403173157/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/bcs-skytrain-to-nowhere/article752468/ |archive-date=April 3, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> One illustration of the legitimacy of this complaint is that the end of the Millennium Line is located in a vacant field, chosen because it was supposed to be the location for a new high-tech development and is close to the head office of QLT Inc., but additional development was slow to get off the ground.<ref name="critics">{{cite news |last=Carrigg |first=David |title=SkyTrain critics have their say |work=Vancouver Courier |date=February 19, 2001 |url=http://www.vancourier.com/issues01/02401/top4.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061021053929/http://www.vancourier.com/issues01/02401/top4.htm |archive-date=October 21, 2006 |access-date=December 21, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Vancouver&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=54.928982,90.351563&ie=UTF8&ll=49.265697,-123.080285&spn=0.005426,0.011029&t=h&z=17 |title=Google map showing location of VCC station |date=January 1, 1970 |access-date=June 23, 2010}}</ref> That station, [[VCC–Clark station|VCC–Clark]] near Clark Drive and Broadway, did not open until 2006 due to the struggles of negotiating the right-of-way with BNSF, the owner of the freight tracks beside the station, but it is still five kilometres short of the original proposed Phase II terminus at Granville Street and 10th Avenue. At the time VCC–Clark station opened, it was revealed that the additional westward extension and its three stations was out of favour and "not a high priority anymore".<ref>{{cite news |last=Carrigg |first=David |title=SkyTrain extension off the rails |work=Vancouver Courier |date=August 5, 2004 |url=http://www.vancourier.com/issues02/045102/news/045102nn6.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019174201/http://www.vancourier.com/issues02/045102/news/045102nn6.html |archive-date=October 19, 2006 |access-date=December 21, 2006}}</ref>

==== Evergreen Extension ====
[[File:Lincoln Station Exterior.jpg|right|thumb|Coquitlam's Lincoln station on the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line (2017)]]
{{Main|Evergreen Extension}}
The Evergreen Extension, known as the Evergreen Line during construction, is the second phase of the Millennium Line, extending from Lougheed Mall in Burnaby to the Douglas College campus in Coquitlam. Originally referred to as the Port Moody-Coquitlam (PMC) Line, it provides a "one-seat ride" from Coquitlam to Vancouver. Switches to the PMC Line were installed to the east of Lougheed Town Centre station during its initial construction and a third platform at the station was roughed-in in anticipation of the extension. Phase II was postponed following a change in provincial government and a shuffling of priorities that led to prioritizing building the Canada Line due to Vancouver's hosting of the 2010 Olympics. Preliminary construction of the Evergreen Extension began in July 2012 and major construction started in June 2013 with the construction of support columns for the line. The extension began revenue service on December 2, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.translink.ca/en/Plans-and-Projects/Rapid-Transit-Projects/Evergreen-Extension.aspx |title=Evergreen Extension |website=transLink.ca |publisher=TransLink |access-date=November 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121041916/http://www.translink.ca/en/Plans-and-Projects/Rapid-Transit-Projects/Evergreen-Extension.aspx |archive-date=November 21, 2016}}</ref>