Pre-Christmas opening promised for delayed Evergreen Line
CBC News | Posted: September 8, 2016 7:31 PM | Last Updated: September 8, 2016
The Evergreen Line was slated to open this summer but construction delays and sinkholes have plagued project
The scheduled opening of the Evergreen Line is changing once again with an announcement the new $1.4 billion transit line will now open before Christmas of this year, although the Ministry of Transportation could not fix an exact date.
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The Evergreen Line was originally slated to be in service this summer but construction delays and numerous problems with sinkholes during tunneling forced officials to repeatedly adjust the timeline.
The Evergreen Line will provide a SkyTrain link between Burnaby, Coquitlam and Port Moody. It is currently over 90 per cent complete according to the ministry.
The province also announced it is investing $5 million to build 150 parking spaces at the Lafarge Lake-Douglas Station where the line ends.