On July 9, 2021, Surrey-Langley SkyTrain became fully funded with then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement of $1.3 billion in federal funding, and SkyTrain for Surrey’s decade-long battle for a SkyTrain extension to Langley City came to a close.
The 16-kilometre Surrey-Langley SkyTrain is now currently under construction along the Fraser Highway corridor.
As of October 2026, Surrey’s municipal government and the new provincial Conservative government have made a commitment to develop the next Surrey SkyTrain extension, extending 6 kilometres from City Centre to Newton on King George Boulevard.
This builds upon the identification of a SkyTrain extension to Newton as a possible priority to be examined for further study in TransLink’s Transport 2050 Regional Transportation Strategy. The proposal was also floated during elections in 2022 and 2024.
Incoming governments must now take steps to ensure that SkyTrain to Newton is positioned ahead of other regional transit priorities, and that construction starts within the next 4 years.
Our victory on the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain has been crucial in sending the message that South-of-Fraser communities need to be served by top-tier rail rapid tranit. But, with TransLink’s Transport 2050 planning process considering more surface-oriented rapid transit (such as light rail) once again, that momentum could be lost.
We cannot go back to the flawed principles that shaped Surrey’s previous proposal for surface light rail: a system that would have been prone to accidents, faced with speed and capacity limitations, and left us with a permanently inferior transit backbone compared to what cities north of the Fraser River have today.
That is why our blueprint for the future includes significant expansion of the SkyTrain system.
Rapid transit ‘spine’ corridors will form the backbone of the South of Fraser network, connecting communities to each other and to job and activity centres throughout the region while offering seamless integration.
Total new SkyTrain:
66 km
| Corridor/Destinations | Completion | Length | Implementation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fraser Highway City Centre to Langley, via Fleetwood | 2029 | 16 km | FUNDED – Expo Line extension |
| King George Boulevard City Centre to South Surrey, via Newton | by 2035 | 22 km | Expo Line branch OR standalone line |
| 104 Avenue & Highway 1 Sapperton to North Langley, via City Centre & Guildford | by 2050 | 20 km | Millennium Line extension via a new Second SkyBridge |
| Scott Road Scott Road Station to Scottsdale | by 2050 | 8 km | Branch line, with Y-junction and through-running |
In addition to Fraser Highway, we have identified three additional “spine” corridors in Surrey/Langley/Delta that should be considered for grade-separated rail rapid transit by 2050.
They have the busiest traffic volumes, the busiest transit routes, and they’re anchored by the rapidly growing Surrey City Centre, which will soon rival downtown Vancouver as an employment centre.
The SkyBridge between Surrey and New Westminster is currently the only high-capacity rail transit crossing over the Fraser River. TransLink has predicted that the SkyBridge (and the current Expo Line) could reach capacity by 2050. Despite this, Transport 2050’s early network concepts do not include a second SkyBridge.
We envision extending the Millennium Line into Surrey on a second SkyBridge, adding badly needed redundancy for our cross-river movements, and allowing for far more seamless connections to places like SFU Burnaby, Broadway, and UBC.
SkyTrain for Surrey is the community organization that advocated for the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension, and continues to push for high-quality, fully grade separated rapid transit projects in Surrey and Langley.
From our beginnings as a petition calling for the scrapping of a street-level LRT proposal, we grew into a community of like-minded folk, taking on various projects such as making SkyTrain an election issue in 2018 as a registered advocacy group. SkyTrain for Surrey continues to call for high-quality transit infrastructure projects that offer a positive return-on-investment. Contact us: [email protected]
Surrey voters have spoken — and it is clear that a SkyTrain extension to Newton must come first, ahead of SkyTrain to UBC, and must begin construction within the next 4 years.
Commitments to SkyTrain to Newton reflect years of calls by local residents and transit advocates
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