Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The SkyTrain in Metro Vancouver was conceived as a legacy project of Expo 86 and the first line was finished in time to showcase the fair's theme: \"Transportation and Communication: World in Motion – World in Touch\".Construction was funded by the provincial and federal governments. Vancouver had plans as early as the 1950s to build a monorail system, with modernist architect Wells Coates pencilled in to design it; that project was abandoned. The lack of a rapid transit system was said to be the cause of traffic problems in the 1970s, and the municipal government could not fund the construction of such a system. During the same period, Urban Transportation Development Corporation, then an Ontario crown corporation, was developing a new rapid transit technology known as an \"Intermediate Capacity Transit System\". In 1980 the need for rapid transit was great, and Ontario needed buyers for its new technology. \"Advanced Rapid Transit\" was selected to be built in Vancouver to showcase the Ontario project at Expo 86."@en }
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- History_of_the_SkyTrain abstract "The SkyTrain in Metro Vancouver was conceived as a legacy project of Expo 86 and the first line was finished in time to showcase the fair's theme: \"Transportation and Communication: World in Motion – World in Touch\".Construction was funded by the provincial and federal governments. Vancouver had plans as early as the 1950s to build a monorail system, with modernist architect Wells Coates pencilled in to design it; that project was abandoned. The lack of a rapid transit system was said to be the cause of traffic problems in the 1970s, and the municipal government could not fund the construction of such a system. During the same period, Urban Transportation Development Corporation, then an Ontario crown corporation, was developing a new rapid transit technology known as an \"Intermediate Capacity Transit System\". In 1980 the need for rapid transit was great, and Ontario needed buyers for its new technology. \"Advanced Rapid Transit\" was selected to be built in Vancouver to showcase the Ontario project at Expo 86.".