Fraser Line

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The Fraser Line is one of three rapid transit/metro lines operated by MetroVan, a private corporation which provides rail rapid transit services to the Metro Vancouver/Lower Mainland region, its state-owned counterpart being TransLink, which operates three lines of its own known collectively as the Skytrain. The other two MetroVan lines are the Burrard Line and the Granville Line. All three MetroVan lines use modern equipment, namely the Bombardier INNOVIA Metro, which are also used by the Skytrain alongside older rolling stock.

The Fraser Line begins at Production Way–University Station, where transfers to the Skytrain's Millennium Line can be made, exiting the station eastbound before immediately turning southbound and then westbound to pass through New Westminster, where it connects with the Skytrain's Expo Line at Columbia Station, New Westminster Station and 22nd Street Station; from there, the line continues on its own elevated tracks following Marine Drive along the Fraser River's north arm, where it stops at five of its own stations, before becoming an underground metro line directly underneath Marine Drive at Knight Street in the municipality of Killarney. Now underground, the line passes six stations before passing Marine Drive Station at Cambie Street in Marpole, where transfers to the Richmond-bound Canada Line (the Skytrain's third line) can be made. From Marine Drive Station, the Fraser Line continues following Marine Drive underground, stopping once at Granville Street and 70th Avenue in Marpole and once more at 41st Avenue and Marine Drive in Kerrisdale, before continuing on uninterrupted to its terminus at UBC Station, where the Millennium Line also ends.