{"id":658061,"date":"2026-05-09T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:34:20","slug":"surrey-langley-skytrain-project-reaches-milestone-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658061\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey-Langley SkyTrain Project reaches milestone &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The province is marking a milestone in the Surrey-Langley <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/skytrain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SkyTrain<\/a> Project.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Construction is now <a href=\"https:\/\/surreylangleyskytrain.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/938\/2024\/01\/Map-Surrey-Langley-SkyTrain-Project-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">underway on the eight stations along the line<\/a>, which will travel 16 kilometres and is expected to be completed in late 2029.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone needs to get to school, work or appointments, and all the better if commutes go quickly with a minimum of stress,\u201d said Premier David Eby in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new extension links the growing region south of the Fraser with the rest of Metro Vancouver, making commuting faster and easier, while relieving traffic congestion. With all eight new SkyTrain stations now under construction, we are closer to riders moving from Langley City Centre to downtown Vancouver in a little over an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This project will extend the Expo Line from King George Station in Surrey to Langley City Centre and will connect those residents to the other SkyTrain lines servicing Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, parts of Coquitlam and downtown Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension is about more than just moving people \u2014 it\u2019s about building stronger, more-connected communities,\u201d Mike Farnworth, B.C.\u2019s Minister of Transportation and Transit, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project will reduce congestion, cut commute times and provide a reliable transportation for the region\u2019s growing population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Station foundation work is already complete at six stations, with work continuing at 152 Street Station and beginning at Willowbrook Station, the province said in an update on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The province is marking a milestone in the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,43,44,227951,243530,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-658061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-skytrain","tag-surrey-langley-skytrain","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658061","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=658061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}