Surrey-Langley SkyTrain station names, locations announced

We’re getting closer to the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension project becoming a reality, as eight new station names were announced Friday.

The SkyTrain to Langley is part of the province’s plan to extend the Expo Line from King George Station in Surrey to the city.

Once complete, it will be the first rapid expansion south of the Fraser River in 30 years, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure adds. Commuters will be able to travel on transit from Langley city to downtown Vancouver in just over one hour.

The eight stations along the 16-kilometre track will include:

• Green Timbers Station (140 Street and Fraser Highway)
• 152 Street Station (152 Street and Fraser Highway)
• Fleetwood Station (160 Street and Fraser Highway)
• Bakerview-166 Street Station (166 Street and Fraser Highway)
• Hillcrest-184 Street Station (184 Street and Fraser Highway)
• Clayton Station (190 Street and Fraser Highway)
• Willowbrook Station (196 Street and Fraser Highway)
• Langley City Centre Station (203 Street and Fraser Highway)

The ministry notes over 50,000 new residents are expected to move into Metro Vancouver every single year. It says this project aims to help with the increase in population. 

In addition to the new stations, there will be more bus exchanges, park-and-ride spaces, 30 more SkyTrain cars, an operations and maintenance centre, and system upgrades.

“Once complete, this extension will connect people to jobs, to friends to businesses and to opportunities throughout the south of the Fraser region and beyond,” said John Aldag, member of parliament for Cloverdale-Langley City.

The cost to build the line is expected to be around $4 billion, the province says.

“This is another important step in moving this project forward from concept to reality,” said Rob Fleming, minister of transportation and infrastructure. “The stations we are naming today will become community landmarks and will be recognized for decades to come.”

He says this project will mark a 27-per-cent expansion to the original SkyTrain network.

“That’s huge. That is unprecedented in Canada right now to make those kinds of investments in public transit — 16 kilometers, the new alignment. And it will bring incredible opportunities.”

Downtown Surrey BIA chair Shirley Samujh-Dayal lives in Langley and says she’s excited about the benefits coming to her city.

“I know immediately that it’s going to save time for families because they’ll be able to hop on and hop off and be able to get where they need to. And from the business side, we’ll be able to increase productivity, we’ll be able to recruit, from a hiring perspective, the ease for people to get here, and all of this while we move towards a cleaner climate,” she said.

“I can say with surety – that these two communities are so excited about this extension line, and endless possibilities that are going to come.”

Construction on the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain project is expected to begin in 2024, with a slated opening of 2028.

With files from Kier Junos