Burrard station

Burrard
SkyTrain station
Location	635 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Coordinates	49°17′08″N 123°07′13″W / 49.285616°N 123.120157°WCoordinates: 49°17′08″N 123°07′13″W / 49.285616°N 123.120157°W
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 Waterfront Terminus Expo Line Granville toward King George Millennium Line Granville 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

• Burrard Street Entrance is the main entrance for Buarrard station, with connection to Royal Centre and Bentall Centre at concourse level. Three escalators are available between platform and concourse level, and 1 up-escalator between concourse and street level. Fare gates are located at inbound platform level for this entrance.
• Burrard Street Elevator Access is separated from the main entrance at street level and located north of the entrance, closer to the Burrard and Dunsmuir intersection. A small station house is being built to accommodate fare gates at street level. At platform level, the access to the elevator is behind a narrow door and a short corridor.^[3]

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