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Successive city councils in the 1970s and 1980s prohibited the construction of freeways as part of a long-term plan. As a result, the only major freeway within city limits is Highway 1, which passes through the north-eastern corner of the city. While the number of cars in Vancouver proper has been steadily rising with population growth, the rate of car ownership and the average distance driven by daily commuters have fallen since the early 1990s. Vancouver is the only major Canadian city with these trends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TransLink is responsible for roads and public transportation within Metro Vancouver (in succession to BC Transit, which had taken over the transit functions of BC Hydro). It provides bus service, including the RapidBus express service, a foot passenger and bicycle ferry service (known as SeaBus), an automated rapid transit service called SkyTrain, and West Coast Express commuter rail. Vancouver’s SkyTrain system is currently running on three lines, the Millennium Line, the Expo Line and the Canada Line with a total of 53 stations as of 2017. Only 20 stations are within the City of Vancouver borders, with the remainder in the adjacent suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other modes of transport add to the diversity of options available in Vancouver. Inter-city passenger rail service is operated from Pacific Central Station by Via Rail to points east, Amtrak Cascades to Seattle and Portland, and Rocky Mountaineer rail tour routes. Small passenger ferries in False Creek provide commuter service to Granville Island, Downtown Vancouver and Kitsilano. Vancouver has a citywide network of bicycle lanes and routes, supporting an active cyclist population year-round. Cycling has become Vancouver’s fastest-growing mode of transportation. The bicycle-sharing system Mobi was introduced to the city in June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vancouver is served by Vancouver International Airport (YVR), located on Sea Island in the city of Richmond, immediately south of Vancouver. Vancouver’s airport is Canada’s second-busiest airport, and the second-largest gateway on the west coast of North America for international passengers. HeliJet and float plane companies operate scheduled air service from Vancouver harbour and YVR south terminal. Two BC Ferry terminals also serve the city. One is to the northwest at Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver, and the other is to the south at Tsawwassen in Delta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Successive city councils in the 1970s and 1980s prohibited the construction of freeways as part of a long-term plan. As a result, the only major freeway within city limits is Highway 1, which passes through the north-eastern corner of the city. While the number of cars in Vancouver proper has been steadily rising with population […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","category-vancouver","tag-politics","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francescalulo.com\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}