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Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border. Its capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. As a whole, Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land area being dominated by forest and tundra. Consequently, its population is highly urbanized, with over 80 per...
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  • 1. UP Express Toronto
    The Union Pearson Express is an airport rail link running between Union Station in Downtown Toronto and Toronto Pearson International Airport. The UP Express began operation on 6 June 2015, in time for the 2015 Pan American Games. The UP Express travels between Union and Pearson in 25 minutes departing every 15 minutes, seven days a week. At the launch announcement, it was stated that the UP Express is projected to carry 2.35 million passengers annually, and eliminate approximately 1.2 million car trips in the first year.UP Express is operated as an independent division of Metrolinx, similarly to GO Transit. An airport rail link was one of the priority projects identified in Metrolinx's regional transportation plan, The Big Move. Construction began in 2011 as part of the Georgetown South P...
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  • 2. SkyTrain Vancouver
    SkyTrain is the metropolitan rail system of the Metro Vancouver Regional District, serving Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and surrounding municipalities. SkyTrain has 79.6 km of track and uses fully automated trains on grade-separated tracks running on underground and elevated guideways, allowing SkyTrain to hold consistently high on-time reliability. The name SkyTrain was coined for the system during Expo 86 because the first line principally runs on elevated guideway outside of Downtown Vancouver, providing panoramic views of the metropolitan area. SkyTrain uses the world's longest cable-supported transit-only bridge, known as SkyBridge, to cross the Fraser River.With the opening of the Evergreen Extension on December 2, 2016, SkyTrain became the longest rapid transit system in Cana...
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  • 3. Via Rail Canada Toronto
    Via Rail Canada is an independent Crown corporation, subsidized by Transport Canada, mandated to offer intercity passenger rail services in Canada. Via Rail operates 514 trains per week across eight Canadian provinces and 12,500 kilometres of track, 98% of which is owned and maintained by other railway companies, mostly by Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway . Via Rail carried approximately 4.39 million passengers in 2017, the majority on routes along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor and had an on-time performance of 73 per cent.
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  • 4. Kaoham Shuttle Lillooet
    The Kaoham Shuttle is a diesel multiple unit passenger service on CN's Squamish Subdivision near Lillooet, operating as a partnership between the railway and the Seton Lake Indian Band, whose communities it serves. The train was started by BC Rail after the end of its passenger service in 2002 between North Vancouver and Prince George via Squamish, Lillooet, Williams Lake, and Quesnel. The train runs daily between Lillooet and Seton Portage. After BC Rail was sold to CN the Kaoham Shuttle kept BC Rail logos but was repainted in CN colours. Currently this is the only train that operates between Lillooet and Seton Portage; trips to D'Arcy are available through advance booking. The Rocky Mountaineer does pass through the area but does not stop until Quesnel. According to a report in the BBC, ...
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  • 6. Evergreen Line Sky Train Coquitlam
    The Evergreen Extension is a 10.9-kilometre long extension of the Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The extension runs from Lougheed Town Centre in Burnaby to Lafarge Lake–Douglas in Coquitlam, which added six new SkyTrain stations and upgraded an existing station on the Millennium Line. It has been in operation since December 2, 2016.Since the extension opened, the Millennium Line has operated between VCC–Clark and Lafarge Lake–Douglas. The extension is expected to serve 70,000 passengers per day in 2021.
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  • 8. Edmonton Light Rail Transit Edmonton
    Edmonton Light Rail Transit, commonly referred to as the LRT, is a light rail system in Edmonton, Alberta. Part of the Edmonton Transit Service , the system has 18 stations on two lines and 24.3 km of track. As of 2016, it is one of the busiest light rail transit systems in North America, with over 112,000 daily weekday riders, and has been growing steadily in recent years. ETS started operation of the original LRT line in 1978, expanded by 2010 into the Capital Line, running between Clareview in Edmonton's northeast and Century Park in Edmonton's south end. The first phase of the newer Metro Line started service between the University of Alberta campus and hospital in Edmonton's southcentral and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology northwest of downtown Edmonton in 2015, with furt...
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