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===正式營運路線===
介乎溫市中心及二埠的溫哥華地區捷運項目（{{lang|en|Vancouver Regional Rapid Transit Project}}<ref name="RRT">{{cite news|title=It's SkyTrain|work=The Province|date=1985-12-11|page=A10|url=http://buzzer.translink.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1985_12_11-11-Province-Its-SkyTrain.pdf|accessdate=2016-10-27|archive-date=2011-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830165047/http://buzzer.translink.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1985_12_11-11-Province-Its-SkyTrain.pdf|dead-url=no}}</ref>）於1982年3月1日動工<ref>{{cite book|last=J. C. Dunn|title=The Institutionalized Cabinet: Governing the Western Provinces|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|location=Montreal and Kingston|year=2003|isbn=0773512837|unused_data=|first=Christoper}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/archives_skytrain_tunnel.htm|publisher=Vancouver History|title=The SkyTrain Tunnel|accessdate=2007-06-12|archive-date=2007-05-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070531225548/http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/archives_skytrain_tunnel.htm|dead-url=no}}</ref>，耗資8億5400萬元（1986年計算）<ref>{{cite news|title=SkyTrain and Cambie Bridge taking us down road to Expo Series: The Eighties; [1* Edition]|work=The Province|last=Mason|first=Bruce|date=1989-12-31|page=20}}</ref>，1985年12月11日開幕<ref>{{cite web|title=Vancouver History 1985|url=http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1985.htm|publisher=VancouverHistory.ca|accessdate=2008-10-29|archive-date=2019-01-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119015017/http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1985.htm|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref name="Winter1986">{{cite web|title=Vancouver Regional Rapid Transit Project Quarterly: Winter 1986|url=http://buzzer.translink.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1986_01-Quarterly.pdf|publisher=BC Transit|accessdate=2011-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828043639/http://buzzer.translink.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1986_01-Quarterly.pdf|archive-date=2011-08-28|dead-url=yes}}</ref>，並於同日正式改稱「架空列車」<ref name="RRT"/>。開幕後架空列車進行了為期八天的試運階段，讓公眾免費試搭，再於1986年1月3日正式展開收費服務<ref name="Winter1986"/>，[[1986年世界博覽會]]舉行期間另設專車連接分別位於[[加拿大廣場 (溫哥華)|加拿大廣場]]和[[福溪 (溫哥華)|福溪]]畔的兩個會場。[[龐巴迪]]公司後來收購了UTDC，並將ICTS技術重新包裝為{{link-en| 先進捷運系統|(Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit}}（{{lang|en|Advanced Rapid Transit}} ）。
架空列車首期路段開通後，當局開始規劃通往[[高貴林]]和[[素里]]的延線。然而，高貴林延線因其擬定走線受沿線居民反對而擱置，當局亦改為專注發展素里延線。本線於1989年從[[二埠站]]伸延至[[哥倫比亞站]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newwestpcr.ca/database/files/library/Winter_2013_ALG_%28web%29.pdf|title=The British Columbian Building|publisher=City of New Westminster: Active Living Guide|accessdate=2012-12-23}}</ref>，1990年沿為架空列車專設的[[天空之橋 (溫哥華)|天空之橋]]橫跨[[菲沙河]]伸延至素里的[[史葛路站]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://buzzer.translink.ca/index.php/2011/01/more-skytrain-history-with-alan-m-photos-of-scott-road-station-1990/|title=More SkyTrain history with Alan M: photos of Scott Road Station, 1990|publisher=TransLink|date=2011-01-31|accessdate=2012-12-23|archive-date=2012-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804183007/http://buzzer.translink.ca/index.php/2011/01/more-skytrain-history-with-alan-m-photos-of-scott-road-station-1990/|dead-url=no}}</ref>，再於1994年延至[[喬治王站]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canadianconsultingengineer.com/awards/pdfs/2012/F8_ExpoLineUpgradeStrategyVancouver.pdf|title=Expo Line Upgrade Strategy: Project Summary|publisher=SNC-Lavalin|accessdate=2012-12-22|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605142650/http://www.canadianconsultingengineer.com/awards/pdfs/2012/F8_ExpoLineUpgradeStrategyVancouver.pdf|archivedate=2013-06-05}}</ref>。