Production Way – University Station
| Production Way – University SkyTrain Station |
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| Address | 3298 Production Way, Burnaby | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°15′12″N 122°55′05″W / 49.25337°N 122.91815°WCoordinates: 49°15′12″N 122°55′05″W / 49.25337°N 122.91815°W | |||||||||||||||
| Structure | Elevated | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Centre platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | 220 space park and ride | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 31, 2002 | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible |  |
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| Code | PW | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | BC Ministry of Transportation, TransLink | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Passengers ([1]) (2009 boardings) |
1,256,647 | |||||||||||||||
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Production Way – University Station is a station on the Millennium Line, a part of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. It is located at the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Production Way in Burnaby, British Columbia.
The station was intended to be a major transfer point to Simon Fraser University, so as well as having local suburban bus connections, it is the terminus to the #145 bus running to SFU, which carries just over half of all bus traffic to the university. The station's commercial space has a Mac's Convenience Store, a Subway restaurant, and a coffee shop. The station is one of just three on the system with a park and ride lot, this one containing 220 spaces.
The SFU Community Trust has proposed extending the TransLink system from this station through the installation of a tri-cable gondola lift to travel up Burnaby Mountain to the SFU Transit Exchange. The proposed lift would use a 30 passenger Doppelmayr Garaventa 3S Gondola, the same model as the Whistler Blackcomb Peak 2 Peak Gondola. The Trust has proposed the gondola because it feels the system is not weather-dependent like the current buses. It is also cheaper to maintain, and also more environmentally friendly. The provincial government has commissioned a feasibility study for the proposal; if approved by the province and TransLink, the lift could be operational by 2014.[2]
[edit] Bus service
- Bus bay assignments;[3]
- 1 - 145 SFU (Loading)
- 2 - 110 Metrotown Station, 136 Lougheed Station, N9 Coquitlam Station
- 3 - 110 Lougheed Station, 136 Brentwood Station
- 4 - 145 Production Station (Unloading), N9 Downtown NightBus
[edit] References
- ^ Boardings abstracted from "Fare Evasion on SkyTrain and Canada Line". Vancouver Sun. 2010-11-07. Workbook data used with Tableau Public. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/transit-system-crime/fare-evasion.html. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
- ^ "Gondola aired". Simon Fraser University. 2009-02-19. http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/news/story_02190920.shtml. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
- ^ Map of Production Way – University Station
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