This is a reproduction of a post made on cohost.org where my friend, Tam and I went on to travel on the entirety of Metro Vancouver’s SkyTrain network

Today, my friend, witchpixels and I are going to travel the entire length of the three-line, 79.6 KM rapid transit system known as SkyTrain! This will have us riding eight trains through 53 stations across seven municipalities in Metro Vancouver!

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and with the construction of the Broadway extension and the upcoming Surrey/Langley extension, this is our opportunity to ride the system using what we believe is the shortest path!

12:27 PM - VCC Clark

It begins! 12:27 pm we have left VCC Clark!

12:48 PM - Lougheed Town Centre

12:48 PM and we are at Lougheed Town Centre!

1:04 PM - Lafarge Lake-Douglas

1:04 PM and we completed the Millennium line! Now to go back! We lucked out as our train didn’t require us to deboard!

1:23 PM - Lougheed Town Centre

1:23 PM and we made it to Lougheed! Unfortunately we will be waiting for our transfer train to get us to Columbia.

1:37 PM - Columbia

1:37 PM and we managed to make a quick transfer at Columbia! Onward into Surrey!

1:45 PM - King George

1:45 PM and we made it on to the long leg all the way to Waterfront!

2:21 PM - Passing VCC-Clark

2:21 PM and we are just passing where we started!

2:31 PM - Waterfront

2:31 PM and we made it to Waterfront! We are going to Richmond-Brighouse first! We had to pass through the station hall but somehow boarded our waiting train effortlessly!

So far we have lucked out on transfers with the worst being five minutes!

2:58 PM - Richmond-Brighouse

2:58 PM and we are at Richmond-Brighouse! One more transfer left and we will be at the end!

3:07 PM - Bridgeport

3:07 PM and we are about to do the last leg. The train we need is immediately next!

3:20 PM - YVR Airport

And time! 2 hours 49 minutes and 8 seconds to ride the entire SkyTrain system! I guess in 2025 or 2026 we can do this again with the Millennium Line extension to Arbutus.

Post-journey statistics

If anyone wants to know the splits, they’re as follows:

VCC Clark to Lafarge Lake/Douglas - 36m 36s
Lafarge Lake/Douglas to Lougheed Town Centre - 17m 28s *
Lougheed Town Centre to Columbia - 13m 50s
Columbia to King George - 10m 20s
King George to Waterfront - 43m 45s
Waterfront to Richmond-Brighouse - 29m 58s
Richmond-Brighouse to Bridgeport - 7m 55s *
Bridgeport to YVR-Airport - 9m 8s

*Denotes that we never had to transfer trains to continue our journey!

Update (August 30, 2023)

Holy shit. We beat the Guinness record for this speedrun.

The SkyTrain speedrun was beaten on this trip!