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=== 首期路段 ===
連接溫市中心[[濱海站 (溫哥華)|濱海站]]和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=2011-10-23|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=yes}}</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|url=https://archive.org/details/institutionalize0000dunn|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>。當局從同年5月起在溫哥華市内[[緬街 (溫哥華)|緬街]]夾總站大道（{{lang|en|Terminal Avenue}}）一帶率先興建一條1公里長的示範線連車站（即現時的[[緬街－科學世界站]]）<ref name="Jones">{{Cite thesis |degree=M.Urb. |chapter=6 |title=From transit to development at Main Street SkyTrain Station |url=https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/thesis/etd7085 |last=Jones |first=Andrew Trevor |year=2012 |publisher=Simon Fraser University |accessdate=2012-12-19 }}{{Dead link|date=2018年9月 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ，1983年夏季期間對外開放。
捷運項目耗資8億5400萬元（1986年金額）<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日正式投入收費服務<ref name="Winter1986"/>，世博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技術重新包裝為先進捷運系統(Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit)。