Canada Line (Vancouver) PPP Project

project in operation

Canada Line is a 19km rail rapid transit system connecting downtown Vancouver, the Vancouver International Airport and Central Richmond. It has 16 stations, two bridges and nine kilometres of tunnel.In service since 2009, the 19.5-kilometre line carries millions of visitors and residents each year, reducing commute times and ferrying tourists and business travellers quickly and efficiently to their destinations. The LRT accomplishes this by providing additional transportation capacity (equivalent to 10 lanes of commuter traffic) in a densely-populated, highly developed and busy urban corridor. Not only does the line contribute significantly to improving the flow of traffic around the city with all the positive economic effects that entails; it also takes thousands of cars off the road, eliminating 16,800 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.The Canada Line has an average weekday ridership of 120,000 passengers, surpassing original ridership estimates for this period.