The Surrey Langley SkyTrain, explained

The Province is building a SkyTrain line down Fraser Highway, and the Langley end is now very real: guideway is going up over Willowbrook Drive. Here is what is being built, where the stations go, and how far along it is as of October 2026. Where the official sources are quiet, we say so.

The line

The project runs 16 km on an elevated guideway from King George Station in Surrey to 203 Street in Langley City, mostly along Fraser Highway. It operates as an extension of the Expo Line. On September 15, 2026 the Province named it the Dave Barrett Extension, after B.C.'s 26th premier (1972 to 1975), whose government expanded transit in Surrey, Delta, White Rock and Langley.

The Province’s numbers: a 22-minute ride from Langley City Centre to King George, which it says is more than 25 minutes faster than the current bus. It projects 56,000 weekday riders in the first year, rising to 80,000 by 2050. The project also adds 14 km of separated walking and cycling paths.

The eight stations

The official names were announced on December 1, 2023. West to east:

1. Green Timbers (140 Street)
2. 152 Street
3. Fleetwood (160 Street)
4. Bakerview-166 Street
5. Hillcrest-184 Street
6. Clayton (190 Street)
7. Willowbrook (196 Street)
8. Langley City Centre (203 Street)

Three stations get transit exchanges: Bakerview-166 Street, Willowbrook and Langley City Centre.

The Langley end

Willowbrook is at 196 Street and Fraser Highway, right at the line between Surrey and the Langleys. The City of Surrey’s own planning work refers to “the Surrey side” of the station. The project’s April 2026 notice put pile driving at the site from mid-April to mid-June 2026, with station construction running through 2028. The July 2026 status report says pile installation there is complete.

Langley City Centre is the terminus at 203 Street in Langley City. The 2024 design boards show a washroom inside the fare-paid area, a secure enclosed bike parkade and a Transit Police office open to the public. Pile driving in Langley began in February 2026, and foundation work runs along Industrial Avenue.

What is built, as of October 2026

From the Province’s releases and the project site:

• May 8, 2026: all eight stations under construction, foundations finished at six, 75% of guideway columns built. Trackwork started in the last week of April 2026.
• September 21, 2026: guideway about 65% complete, foundation piles and columns more than 95% complete, and work “well underway” at all eight stations.
• The gantry called the Langley Launcher (more than 100 metres long, over 440 tonnes) has built about 3 km of guideway, starting at Hillcrest-184 Street. The week of September 21 it reached Langley, working over Willowbrook Drive toward the Willowbrook station site.
• The line needs more than 4,400 precast concrete segments, each about 28 tonnes, cast at a plant in Surrey.

On the road, the project site says Fraser Highway is down to a single lane 24/7 along most of the corridor, with work hours Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 10 pm. Weekly traffic advisories cover Fraser Highway from 138 to 203 Street plus Industrial Avenue. For closures near you, see how to check road closures.

Money and timing

The July 2026 status report lists an approved budget of $5.996 billion, with $2.800 billion spent by the end of July. The Province’s May release says B.C. is putting in $4.4 billion and Canada $1.3 billion. The anticipated in-service date is late 2029, and the September 21 release says the project is on schedule.

What happens to the buses

Nothing final is published yet. The project’s 2024 information boards say TransLink will update local bus connections before the line opens, and TransLink’s own project page points back to the Province for details. There is no published Langley route plan for opening day that we could find.

One related plan is public. TransLink’s Langley-Haney Place bus rapid transit line would run 22 km with 13 stations between Willowbrook and Haney Place in Maple Ridge, connecting to SkyTrain at Willowbrook Station. TransLink says it is in detailed planning and is currently unfunded. Watch TransLink’s Bus Rapid Transit page and our transit in Langley page.

Transit-oriented areas

Under the Province’s Bill 47 rules, land within 800 metres of a listed SkyTrain station is a transit-oriented area. The current regulation lists both “196 Street Station” and “203 Street Station”. Councils can’t turn down a rezoning there just for its height or density if it is at or below the provincial floor: 20 storeys within 200 m, 12 storeys from 200 to 400 m, 8 storeys from 400 to 800 m. Projects still go through a rezoning application, and councils can’t require residential parking in these areas. For how those applications move, see how development gets approved.

For the other big builds around town, see big projects in the Langleys.

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