Burrard station

Burrard
SkyTrain station
Location 635 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Coordinates 49°17′08″N 123°07′13″W / 49.285616°N 123.120157°W / 49.285616; -123.120157Coordinates: 49°17′08″N 123°07′13″W / 49.285616°N 123.120157°W / 49.285616; -123.120157
Owned by BC Transit, TransLink
Platforms Split platforms
Tracks 2
Construction
Structure type Subway
Platform levels 2
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code BU
Fare zone 1
History
Opened December 11, 1985
Traffic
Passengers (2011[1]) 44,200
Services
Preceding station   TransLink   Following station
Terminus
Expo Line
toward King George
Millennium Line
toward VCC–Clark
A train arriving at Burrard’s eastbound platform

Burrard is a SkyTrain station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, served by the Expo and Millennium Lines. The station is located in the Dunsmuir Tunnel located beneath Downtown Vancouver, and opened in 1985.

Location

Burrard station is located in the heart of Vancouver’s financial district and is very close to Coal Harbour and the West End. The subway station is accessible from the surface via an entrance through an urban park named Art Phillips Park (originally Discovery Square)[2] where Burrard Street meets Melville and Dunsmuir Streets, or via the underground shopping malls of the Royal Centre and Bentall Centre skyscraper complexes.

Services

Burrard station is one of six SkyTrain subway stations currently serving Downtown Vancouver. It connects with many TransLink bus routes in Metro Vancouver; these buses serve the city of Vancouver, Burnaby, the city and district of North Vancouver, West Vancouver, and the Tri-Cities.

Prior to the opening of the Canada Line, a number of routes also served Richmond (including the 98 B-Line), Delta, Surrey, and White Rock.

Design

Like Granville, and King Edward, Burrard Station has a distinctive platform design. The westbound track (to Waterfront Station) is stacked on top of the eastbound track (to King George and VCC–Clark), with the westbound platform being one level above the eastbound platform.

The structure housing the surface station entrance was designed to resemble Victorian-era British railway stations, with a peaked glass roof.

When originally opened, the station’s only underground passage was to the Bentall Centre skyscraper complex in the Financial District. A connection to the Royal Centre complex was constructed some years later, while an anticipated underground passage to the Park Place skyscraper across the street was never built.

Station information

Station layout

S Street Burrard entrances and elevator access
Ticket vending machines, fare gates (elevator access)
C Concourse Connection to Royal Centre and Bentall Centre
Ticket vending machines
    Gap between levels
T1 Lower Concourse Ticket vending machines, fare gates (Burrard)
Platform 1  Expo Line towards Waterfront,  Millennium Line towards Waterfront (Terminus)
Side platform, doors will open on the left
T2 Platform 2  Expo Line towards King George,  Millennium Line towards VCC–Clark (Granville)
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Entrances

Transit connections

Burrard station provides an on-street transit exchange on Burrard, Dunsmuir, and Thurlow Street. Bus bay assignments is as follows:[4]

Bay Location Routes
1 Burrard Street
Southbound
2 Macdonald-16th Ave
22 Macdonald
32 Dunbar
44 UBC
N22 Macdonald-Dunbar
2 Dunsmuir Street
Westbound
209 Upper Lynn Valley (limited service)
210 Upper Lynn Valley
211 Seymour (PM peak only)
214 Blueridge (PM peak only)
3 Dunsmuir Street
Westbound
160 Port Coquitlam Station
190 Coquitlam Station (PM peak only)
4 Thurlow Street
Northbound
2 Macdonald-16th Ave
5 Burrard Street
Northbound
22 Knight
44 Downtown
N22 Downtown
6 Burrard Street
Northbound
135 SFU

References

  1. "2011 SkyTrain Station Counts". TransLink. Retrieved January 2013.
  2. "Art Phillips Park". City of Vancouver. Retrieved March 2016. Originally named Discovery Square in 1983, the park was renamed to Art Phillips Park in 2013.
  3. "Expo Line Station Review". Translink. Retrieved November 2011.
  4. Map of Burrard Station

External links

Media related to Burrard Station at Wikimedia Commons

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