SkyTrain network changes start today

Changes on the SkyTrain network take effecttoday and they could impact how you get around Metro Vancouver.

Starting today, the Millennium Line will no longer travel to Waterfront Station in downtown Vancouver.

Instead, it will run east-west from Lougheed Town Centre in Burnaby to VCC-Clark in Vancouver.

Customers can transfer between Expo and Millennium lines at Commercial-Broadway, Lougheed Station or Production Way-University.

TransLink says thosetransferring between the Expo and Millennium lines at Production WayUniversity can hop off one train and onto another on the same platform without having to takestairs, escalators or elevators.

• Changes are coming to the SkyTrain network

When the Evergreen Extension opens, which will be sometime before Christmas, the Millennium Line will run from VCC-Clark to Lafarge Lake-Douglas in Coquitlam without requiring a transfer.

TransLink CEO Kevin Desmond told CBC News the changes are part of a testing program to get ready for the extension.

Expo Line changes

Changes also takeeffect today fortheExpo Line, which is nowsplit into two branches.

One will travel between Waterfront and Production Way-University in Burnaby.

The second will travel between Waterfront and King George Station in Surrey.

TranksLink says the frequency of Millennium Line trains will increase, but the Expo Line will remainroughly the same.

With files from Jesse Johnston