An important part of our life in downtown New Westminster is access to the SkyTrain. We actually discovered and chose this city after arriving to live in British Columbia. A primary reason we are here was SkyTrain access. We explored the area from the city of Vancouver on the original Expo Line. In 1996, it was the only existing line of a now much-expanded system. The driverless cars had been operating since Vancouver's World Fair of a decade earlier. So much about our area has changed, but the fact SkyTrains run through the middle of our downtown continues to make our lives easier.
This morning after a short walk to the other end of downtown, I boarded a train from New Westminster Station to return to Columbia, less than a kilometer away. Our building has direct access to the underground Columbia Station at the foot of our building.
