Editing Vancouver International Airport (section)

===Rapid transit (SkyTrain)===
[[File:Vancouver Airport Skytrain Station 2008-04-22.JPG|thumb| [[SkyTrain (Vancouver)|SkyTrain]]'s [[Canada Line]]]]
The airport has a station on the [[SkyTrain (Vancouver)|SkyTrain]] network called [[YVR–Airport station|YVR–Airport]], the terminus of the Sea Island branch of the [[Canada Line]]. The airport authority contributed $300 million towards construction as part of the Canada Line's funding.<ref>{{cite web |date=2006-10-23 |title=Canada Line construction reaches milestone at YVR - constructconnect.com |url=https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/projects/2006/10/canada-line-construction-reaches-milestone-at-yvr-joc021746w |access-date=2022-03-15 |website=Journal Of Commerce |language=en-US}}</ref> A pedestrian footbridge ($117 million, completed in 2007) links the international terminal with the domestic terminal and serves as the arrival and departure area for users of the Canada Line.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yvr.ca/en/getting-to-from-yvr/public-transportation.aspx |title=Public Transportation |access-date=March 20, 2016 |publisher=Vancouver International Airport Authority |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316064705/http://www.yvr.ca/en/getting-to-from-yvr/public-transportation.aspx |archive-date=March 16, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Canada Line itself opened in August 2009 as the third line of Vancouver's [[rapid transit]] network, in advance of the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] which took place the following February.<ref>{{cite web |title=Canada Line linking Vancouver and Richmond to open Aug. 17 |periodical=The Vancouver Sun |url=https://vancouversun.com/Canada+Line+open/1859013/story.html |access-date=March 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807065913/http://www.vancouversun.com/Canada%20Line%20open/1859013/story.html |archive-date=August 7, 2009 |last=Kelly Sinoski }}</ref> It was the only [[airport rail link]] service of any kind in Canada until the opening of Toronto's [[Union Pearson Express]] in 2015.