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expo and millennium lines are pretty solid, but as is usual in these situations we had a right wing government for 16 years that did fuck all to improve transit. for starters the canada line is a huge waste of potential. it was built (by a company involved in an unrelated massive federal government corruption scandal) using a completely different system from the rest of the network, which meant brand new rolling stock and a brand new maintenance facility. the trains run slower and can only be run with 2 cars per because they built the stations too small to handle increased capacity that inevitably has come. there was a small streetcar line during the 2010 olympics that used disused tracks formerly used by interurban rail that the government said they would expand into a fully fledged line but they abandoned that idea quickly. they wanted to build an lrt line that would run in the city of surrey, which is where the expo line ends in the east, but that was so poorly conceived that after a change in government it was quickly panned. but it was panned in favour of an extension of the expo line eastward into the exurbs, where no one lives, rather than continuing south into surrey where there's actually a demand for more transit. the only good thing thats been done to the skytrain in the last 15 or so years was the extension of the millennium line, and thats only because it had to use the existing system. the transit authority wanted to do the aforementioned poorly conceived lrt in coquitlam but the people rightly wanted the superior skytrain
