Vancouver SkyTrain
バンクーバー・スカイトレイン
Vancouver SkyTrain バンクーバー・スカイトレイン |
Vancouver Rapid Transit
SkyTrain is an urban rapid transit system in Metro Vancouver. It uses fully automated trains running
mostly on elevated tracks. SkyTrain's 68.7 km of track makes it one of the longest auto-operating
rapid transit systems in the world. The system has a total of 47 stations on three lines. The Expo Line
was built in time for the Expo 86 World's Fair. The Millennium Line opened in 2002, and the Canada Line
opened in 2009 in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
SkyTrain network carries a week-average of 240,000 passengers on the Expo and Millennium lines
together, and 110,000 passengers on the Canada Line. The terminal station for three lines is
the Waterfront underground station. However, the site of station for Canada Line is different
from the other two SkyTrain lines.
(L) A proof-of-payment document (R) A silent yellow-strip alarm in case when needed a police service.
It uses a proof-of-payment fare system shared with local bus services, and is policed by the South
Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority Police Service. SkyTrain Attendants are present
to provide first aid, directions and customer service, inspect fares, monitor train faults, and operate
the trains manually if necessary.
Source: Wikipedia
A route map of the Vancouver SkyTrain
SkyTrain and the interior of the Waterfront station hall
(L) Waterfront station and track lines of the West Coast Express (R) No-smoking sign posted on the plateform of Canada Line.
(L) The buffer-stop with a red lamp at the rail track terminal at the Waterfront station of Canada Line
There is no train service between 1:05 and 4:48 AM.
(R) Waterfront terminal station of Expo Line and Millennium Line
(L) The underground tunnels of the SkyTrain (R) An automatically operating ticket machine, with a zone map shown above space
Burrard station in a daytime and at night
(L) Vancouver City Centre station
(M) The railway track of Canada Line goes up to the surface after Langara-49th Avenue Station.
The underground railway is constructed as a cut-and-cover tunnel.
(R) Columbia Station of the Expo Line in New Westminister is mainly in the underground.
The line branches off here to King George and VCC-Clark.
Photographs show the inside scene of SkyTrain and the drivers-eye front-row sheet.
(L) Condominium buildings located between Stadium-Chinatown and Main Street-Science World stations.
(R) Skytrain track line often runs in parallel to the Canadian National Railway, the Canada's largest freight railroad.
New Westminister station is ahead, and Freser River in the right.
Millennium Line and Expo Line are important public transportation to the Metropolitan residents.
(L) The bus terminal and a view of condominium seen from the plateform of the Richmond station
(R) Sapperton station of the Millennium Line in New Westminister
(L) A new Central City building, near the Surrey-Central station
(R) Fraser River and a long mass transit-only bridge, the Skybridge, to cross the Fraser River
Skytrain Bridge has two tracks of Sky-Train, which is exclusively for Vancouver Sky-Train.
(L) Two tracks of Sky-Train at cable-stayed bridge, Skytrain Bridge.
(R) A Sky-Train track line runs in parallel to the VIA railroad in suburban Vancouver.
(L) Millennium Line SkyTrain railway track, near Lougheed, Vancouver
(R) The railway track runs in parallel to the Trans-Canada-Highway, and then crosses the road, arriving at the Lougheed Town Centre Station.
Canada Line crosses the North Arm Bridge. It is an extra-dosed bridge over Fraser River
and links Oak Street Bridge, South Vancouver to Bridgeport, Richmond.
The pictures show the North Arm Bridge and track lines near the Bridgeport station, Richmond.
Canada Line railway track, photographed near the Vancouver International Airport.
All trains are smoke-free.
(L) The junction of Canada Line, which is divided to the Airport and Richmond-Brighouse.
(R) Observation tower of the Airport and a track line of Canada Line
(L) An automatic ticket vending machine at the YVR-Airport station (R) The terminal plateform of Canada Line
Vancouver SkyTrain
スカイトレインは、カナダの鉄道車両製造技術とコンピューター制御技術を世界に誇示するために、1986年の
バンクーバー国際交通博覧会（Expo 86）に関連して、大量輸送機関のモデルとして計画・完成された。編成は
2両、あるいは4両となっている。列車はコンピュータ制御で自動運転され、一般の鉄道で使われている固定
閉塞方式を用いていないため、列車同士が非常に近づくことができ、2分から5分という短い間隔で次の列車が
やってくる。筆者は完全に無人で、しかも非常に短い間隔で多くの人々を輸送している電車をみて驚き、感心した。
2010年には日本企業、三菱商事、三菱重工業、大林組、鹿島建設が手がけ、自動運転のドバイ・メトロが
完成したが、今でも世界で2番目に長い距離を走る無人（コンピュータ制御）電車である。スカイトレインの車両の
駆動や制動は鉄輪式リニアモーターカーが採用されている。
駅には駅員もいないことから、あまり治安が良くない交通機関と懸念されたため、全駅構内に防犯カメラを設置し、
スカイトレイン警察隊（鉄道警察）が結成されている。この警察隊は、普通の警察官と同じ法律による拘束力があり、
犯人逮捕も出来る。筆者は不正乗車で実際に逮捕された場面にも遭遇した。車内には黄色の無音アラームストライプ
という身に危険が迫った場合に通報できるシステムがある。窓枠の黄色いストラップを押すことで作動し、数分で
警察隊が現場に急行するとされている。
All railway trains should be completely smoke -free.
海外鉄道紀行
イタリア鉄道旅行記 Italia Rail: Trenitalia
Smoking ban in the railway trains of the world
Canada 2011
Smokefree British Columbia
USA 2010
USA and Canada 2007
バンクーバー・スカイトレイン
2011年6月写真撮影 2011年7月執筆 医学博士 宮本順伯
★This Web site is link-free.
This information was provided by the Smokefree Hotel and Travel.
All photographs were taken in June 2011.
The article was written in July 2011, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
Copyright (C) 2011 Junhaku Miyamoto, PhD. All right is reserved.
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