Editing Millennium Line (section)

==Expansion plans==
===Broadway extension===
{{stack|[[File:SkyTrain Broadway Subway map.svg|thumb|A map showing the extension along Broadway in relation to existing lines and surface streets]]
[[File:Great Northern Way–Emily Carr station (20220414 184342743).jpg|thumb|Staging pit for the [[tunnel boring machine]] at the site of Great Northern Way–Emily Carr station in April 2022]]
[[File:Broadway Subway construction near Yukon Street, Vancouver - July 2022 - 02.jpg|thumb|"Traffic decks" were built atop station construction sites to avoid road closures.]]}}

On March 16, 2018, the provincial government approved the construction of the "Broadway Subway Project", an initiative which will extend the Millennium Line west to Arbutus Street and add six new stations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.translink.ca/Plans-and-Projects/Rapid-Transit-Projects/Broadway-Subway-Project.aspx |title=Broadway Subway Project |publisher=TransLink |access-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325033721/https://www.translink.ca/Plans-and-Projects/Rapid-Transit-Projects/Broadway-Subway-Project.aspx |archive-date=March 25, 2019 |website=translink.ca}}</ref> The extension will be {{convert|5.7|km}} long, all but {{convert|700|m}} of which will be underground, and cost an estimated $2.83{{Nbsp}}billion. Originally scheduled for a 2025 opening, the expected opening was pushed back to early 2026 in November 2022.<ref name="dh-underway">{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=May 13, 2021 |title=Major construction now officially underway on $2.8-billion Broadway Subway |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-skytrain-extension-construction-timeline |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=[[Daily Hive]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=FAQ |url=https://www.broadwaysubway.ca/about/faq/ |website=Broadway Subway Project |date=August 22, 2020 |publisher=Government of British Columbia |access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=November 24, 2022 |title=Broadway Subway opening delayed to 2026 |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-skytrain-millennium-line-extension-opening-date |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125034617/https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-skytrain-millennium-line-extension-opening-date |archive-date=November 25, 2022 |access-date=November 25, 2022 |website=Daily Hive Vancouver |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref> The delay was caused by a labour dispute involving concrete workers which started in June 2022.<ref name=":2" /> On May 24, 2024, the province revealed that the project would be delayed further, to late 2027.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024MOTI0065-000799 |title=Two major infrastructure projects reach milestones |publisher=Ministry of Transportation |date=May 24, 2024 }}</ref>

While six new stations are confirmed for the Broadway extension, one will become part of the existing [[Broadway–City Hall station|Broadway–City Hall]] [[Canada Line]] station, which is scheduled to be upgraded as part of the project:{{efn|All locations are approximate, with final station locations within one block of the given intersections.}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-broadway-subway-station-names-2019 |title=These are the proposed station names for SkyTrain's Broadway Extension |work=Daily Hive |date=July 3, 2019 |access-date=July 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704035403/https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-broadway-subway-station-names-2019 |archive-date=July 4, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Kenneth |last=Chan |title=These are the 6 stations of the Broadway Subway in Vancouver (VISUALS) |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-broadway-extension-millennium-line-stations-vancouver |work=Daily Hive |date=March 22, 2018 |access-date=July 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324191706/https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-broadway-extension-millennium-line-stations-vancouver |archive-date=March 24, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Great Northern Way–Emily Carr station]], at Great Northern Way and Thornton Street adjacent to the [[Emily Carr University of Art and Design|Emily Carr University]]
* [[Mount Pleasant station (SkyTrain)|Mount Pleasant station]], at Main Street and East Broadway
* Broadway–City Hall station, at Cambie Street and West Broadway. The existing Broadway–City Hall station on the Canada Line, originally designed with a "knock-out" panel to accommodate a connection to a future Millennium Line extension, will be upgraded and connected to the extension. An adjacent development was required by the City of Vancouver to provide space for an additional entrance to the Millennium Line portion of the station.
* [[Oak–VGH station]], at Laurel Street and West Broadway near Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)
* [[South Granville station]], at Granville Street and West Broadway
* [[Arbutus station]], at Arbutus Street and West Broadway. The [[99 B-Line]] bus route, which follows much of the extension's route, will be truncated to terminate at this station.

==== Construction ====
Preliminary work on the extension began on February 19, 2019, with the installation of trolley poles and wires on 12th Avenue between Arbutus and Granville Streets that were required in order to reroute [[Trolley buses in Vancouver|trolley buses]] off of [[Broadway (Vancouver)|Broadway]] for the duration of the construction of the subway.<ref>{{cite web |title=Early Works – Broadway Subway |url=https://engage.gov.bc.ca/broadwaysubway/early-works/ |access-date=April 13, 2019 |work=Government of British Columbia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=March 25, 2019 |title=TransLink releases map of trolley reroutes during Broadway Subway construction |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-broadway-subway-trolley-bus-reroutes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326054737/https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-broadway-subway-trolley-bus-reroutes |archive-date=March 26, 2019 |access-date=July 11, 2019 |work=Daily Hive}}</ref> On June 22, 2020, trolleybuses were removed from Broadway.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lazaruk |first=Susan |date=June 10, 2020 |title=TransLink taking trolley buses off busy Broadway for next five years |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/translink-taking-trolley-buses-off-busy-broadway-for-next-five-years |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610230442/https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/translink-taking-trolley-buses-off-busy-broadway-for-next-five-years |archive-date=June 10, 2020 |access-date=June 10, 2020 |work=Vancouver Sun}}</ref> The provincial government initially had a plan to have a contractor selected by April 2020 to allow for construction to begin later that year.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=February 15, 2019 |title=BC launches bidding process for $2.8-billion Broadway Subway to Arbutus |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-extension-skytrain-bidding-process-february-2019 |access-date=July 11, 2019 |work=Daily Hive}}</ref> On July 17, 2020, the provincial Ministry of Transportation announced that [[Acciona|Acciona Infrastructure]], a Spanish conglomerate, and [[Ghella (company)|Ghella]], an Italian company, would be in charge of construction.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Little |first=Simon |date=July 17, 2020 |title=B.C. government picks construction group to build Vancouver's Broadway subway |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/7190683/bc-government-construction-consortium-broadview-subway/ |access-date=July 18, 2020 |website=globalnews.ca}}</ref> Demolition of buildings, to make room for station entrances and construction staging areas, began in February 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=February 2, 2021 |title=Demolition begins ahead of Broadway Subway's major construction work |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-demolition-work-february-2021 |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=Daily Hive}}</ref>

Major construction on the extension began on May 13, 2021.<ref name="dh-underway" /><ref name="bcgov-major">{{Cite web |date=May 13, 2021 |title=Broadway Subway Project reaches major construction phase |url=https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021TRAN0065-000906 |access-date=April 27, 2022 |website=BC Gov News {{!}} Transportation and Infrastructure}}</ref> "Traffic decks" began to be installed over Mount Pleasant, Broadway–City Hall, Oak–VGH, South Granville, and Arbutus stations, to avoid closing Broadway while station construction takes place underneath. Construction of the elevated guideway at the eastern end of the extension began on December 13, 2021. This {{convert|700|m|ft|-long|adj=mid}} guideway is the only above-ground portion of the extension and connects the existing [[VCC–Clark station]] to a tunnel portal adjacent to the [[Emily Carr University of Art and Design]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=December 13, 2021 |title=Construction begins on Broadway Subway's elevated track |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-skytrain-elevated-guideway-construction |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=Daily Hive}}</ref> 

The [[tunnel boring machine]]s for the project were delivered to Vancouver between April and June 2022. Two identical machines, each {{convert|6|m}} in diameter and {{convert|150|m}} in length, would dig about {{convert|18|m}} of tunnel per day, at a depth of {{convert|15|to|20|m}} below the surface.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Little |first=Simon |date=April 23, 2022 |title=Broadway subway: Tunneling to start this summer as machine parts arrive in Vancouver |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/8781289/broadway-subway-tunneling-equipment/ |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=[[Global News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Menteth |first=Thames |date=June 16, 2022 |title=Final TBM parts arrive for Vancouver's Broadway Subway |url=https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/final-tbm-parts-arrive-for-vancouvers-broadway-subway-16-06-2022/ |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=Ground Engineering}}</ref> The two machines were named Elsie and Phyllis, honouring two influential Vancouver residents: [[Aerospace engineering|aeronautical engineer]] [[Elsie MacGill]] and [[Mountaineering|mountaineer]] [[Phyllis Munday]]. Elsie began tunnelling the eastbound tunnel from [[Great Northern Way–Emily Carr station]] in October 2022, with Phyllis beginning work on the westbound tunnel in late November. Both machines had reached Broadway–City Hall station by May 26, 2023,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=May 26, 2023 |title=New subway's second tunnel-boring machine reaches Broadway-City Hall Station |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-millennium-line-broadway-city-hall-station-phyllis-tunnel-boring |access-date=October 6, 2023 |website=Daily Hive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rush |first=Jim |date=May 30, 2023 |title=Second TBM Breaks Through at Vancouver's Broadway-City Hall Station |url=https://tunnelingonline.com/second-tbm-breaks-through-at-vancouvers-broadway-city-hall-station/ |access-date=October 6, 2023 |website=Tunnel Business Magazine}}</ref> and [[South Granville station]] by February 8, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=February 10, 2024 |title=Second tunnel boring machine for Broadway Subway reaches South Granville Station |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/elsie-tunnel-boring-machine-broadway-subway-south-granville-station-skytrain |access-date=February 11, 2024 |website=Daily Hive}}</ref> Phyllis completed boring at [[Arbutus station]] on March 20, 2024, and the tunnel boring phase was fully completed when Elsie reached Arbutus on April 26, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=April 29, 2024 |title=Breakthrough! Tunnel boring for Broadway Subway reaches full completion |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-skytrain-millennium-line-tunnel-boring-complete |access-date=May 1, 2024 |website=Daily Hive}}</ref>

===University of British Columbia extension<span id="UBC extension"></span>===
On January 14, 2008, the Government of British Columbia announced a commitment to the expansion of the Millennium Line to the [[University of British Columbia]] (UBC) by 2020 as part of a $14-billion transit spending package to address [[global warming]]. It was not clear what route the new line would take, but it was hinted that there would be less use of [[Tunnel#Cut-and-cover|cut-and-cover tunnelling]] to minimize disruption to businesses along Broadway and avoid [[Canada Line#Impact on local businesses|the same problems]] seen during the Canada Line construction along [[Cambie Street]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Vaughn |last=Palmer |title=Less than meets the eye, and light on details |url=http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6cb8fa40-30d1-4437-aa0f-6be3080a6d95&p=2 |work=[[Vancouver Sun]] |publisher=[[CanWest Global Communications|CanWest MediaWorks Publications]] |date=January 15, 2008 |access-date=January 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103191941/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6cb8fa40-30d1-4437-aa0f-6be3080a6d95&p=2 |archive-date=November 3, 2012}}</ref> This expansion failed to materialize. 

On February 15, 2019, the TransLink Mayors' Council again approved an extension of the line to the UBC campus, although funding for this continuation past Arbutus Street had not yet been secured.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/skytrain-extension-ubc-1.5021463|title=Metro Vancouver mayors vote yes on SkyTrain extension to UBC | date=February 15, 2019 |work=CBC News |access-date=February 16, 2019}}</ref> In 2022, TransLink unveiled a proposed route for the extension: the line would continue west under Broadway, with stations at Macdonald and Alma Streets. It would then deviate slightly north to a station serving the redevelopment at the [[West Point Grey#Jericho Lands|Jericho Lands]]. In the [[University Endowment Lands]], the line would either take an elevated route following University Boulevard, or a tunnelled route underneath the [[University Golf Club]], to get to UBC at a station under the University Boulevard bus loop.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McDonald |first=Elizabeth |date=May 2, 2022 |title=TransLink presents two potential routes for SkyTrain to UBC project |work=[[The Ubyssey]] |url=https://www.ubyssey.ca/news/translink-presents-two-potential-routes-for-skytrain-to-ubc-project/ |access-date=August 21, 2022}}</ref> The station locations at Macdonald Street, Alma Street, and the Jericho Lands were approved by the Vancouver City Council in March 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Britten |first=Liam |date=March 30, 2022 |title=Vancouver council picks spots for 3 stations on proposed SkyTrain extension to UBC |work=[[CBC News]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-skytrain-stations-1.6403412 |access-date=August 21, 2022}}</ref>

===Port Coquitlam extension===
When the [[Evergreen Extension]] was built, the first few metres of track and a track switch to allow for an eventual eastward extension to [[Port Coquitlam]] were built at [[Coquitlam Central station]]. This would create two branches where trains would alternate between going east to Lafarge Lake–Douglas station or to Port Coquitlam. A feasibility study was conducted, started during early 2020 and running for about six months. Port Coquitlam mayor Brad West, the Port Coquitlam city council, and the [[Coquitlam City Council]] all voiced support for the extension. However, {{as of|2025|lc=y|post=,}} no funding had been secured nor a formal plan created.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/port-coquitlam-skytrain-study|title=Port Coquitlam to launch feasibility study on Skytrain Extension | date=November 28, 2019 |work=Daily Hive |access-date=November 28, 2019}}</ref>