cost and LRT technology. In about 1995, the provincial government changed its priorities, and announced a Broadway–Lougheed–New Westminster rapid transit route, with a future line to Coquitlam; this would be named the Millennium Line (with the original line from Waterfront to King George retroactively named the Expo Line). As part of that announcement, the Arbutus and Cambie Street corridors were shown as potential future rapid transit corridors from Vancouver to Richmond. Expansion In 1997, negotiations began at the Greater Vancouver Regional District on transferring responsibility for SkyTrain from the province to the local governments after different visions emerged on how to cope with the growing region and the expansion line planned through the Lougheed area of Burnaby. In 1999, with the adoption of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Act (now the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority Act), responsibility for SkyTrain, and ownership of SkyTrain's operating company, the British Columbia Rapid Transit Company, were transferred from BC Transit to the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, branded as TransLink. As part of the deal, the proponents agreed on a limited growth plan, with the province taking responsibility for expansion under the Crown corporation Rapid Transit Project 2000 (RTP 2000), and a cost-sharing scheme. Transit expansion options for the rapidly growing region, which was outstripping TransLink's capacity, included streetcars, rapid buses, and light rapid transit, which were passed over in favour of new SkyTrain lines. RTP 2000 proposed a two-phase expansion: a $1.2-billion Millennium Line from New Westminster to Vancouver Community College via Lougheed Town Centre in Phase I; and a $73-million Coquitlam line from Lougheed Mall to Coquitlam Centre via Port Moody, and a Western Line from Vancouver Community College to Granville Street via the Broadway corridor, both to be completed before 2006, in Phase II. The first section of the Millennium Line opened in 2002, with the addition of two stations, Braid and Sapperton. Most of the remaining portion began operating later that year, serving North Burnaby and East Vancouver. Phase I of the Millennium Line was completed $50 million under budget. Critics of the project dubbed it the "SkyTrain to Nowhere", claiming that the route of the new line was based on political concerns, not the needs of commuters. One illustration of the legitimacy of this complaint was that the end of the Millennium Line was located in a vacant field, originally chosen because it was supposed to be the