History of the SkyTrain
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History of the SkyTrain
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The SkyTrain rapid transit system in Greater Vancouver, Canada, was conceived as a legacy project of Expo 86 and was finished in time to showcase the fair's theme: "Transportation and Communication: World in Motion – World in Touch". Construction was funded by the provincial and federal governments. Vancouver had plans as early as the 1950s to build a monorail system, with modernist architect Wells Coates pencilled in to design it; that project was abandoned. The lack of a rapid transit system w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_SkyTrain
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2011-08-01T20:23:28Z
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2024-09-06T00:32:57Z
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