{"id":585867,"date":"2026-04-06T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:12:07","slug":"curious-about-langleys-skytrain-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585867\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious about Langley\u2019s SkyTrain construction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Curious about Langley\u2019s SkyTrain construction?<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 5:00 am Monday, April 6, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Construction crews are building the foundations for the elevated guideway in Langley near Production Way and Fraser Highway for the 16-kilometre Surrey Langley SkyTrain.<\/p>\n<p>Driven piles are being built into the ground to support the future guideway (pillars that support the elevated train tracks).<\/p>\n<p>The guideways feature massive formed pieces of concrete which are created at a site in Campbell Heights on Surrey\/Langley border and then transported via flatbed truck to the sites along the route to be hoisted into position by launching gantries.<\/p>\n<p>Once the row of segments are in alignment, crews use specialized construction glue to connect them, then wire the span tightly together, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/surreylangleyskytrain.gov.bc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website about the project<\/a>. The gantry then slides forward and uses the previously constructed span as support for building the next section of guideway.<\/p>\n<p>The four gantries being used were given names based on where they would be used the most.<\/p>\n<p>The Langley Launcher will begin installing guideway segments from the 184 Street Station through to the Langley City Centre Station, the last stop on the line.<\/p>\n<p>This gantry has the biggest workload and will be lifting roughly 1,350 elevated guideway segments into place by the time the SkyTrain extension is done in 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The other gantries were dubbed the Fleetwood Flyer, the Surrey Sprinter, and the Clayton Clipper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curious about Langley\u2019s SkyTrain construction? Published 5:00 am Monday, April 6, 2026 Construction crews are building the foundations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-585867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}