Burrard station
Burrard | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | 635 Burrard Street, Vancouver | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°17′08″N 123°07′13″W / 49.285616°N 123.120157°W | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | BC Transit, TransLink | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Split platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | BU | ||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | December 11, 1985 | ||||||||||||||
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| 2009 | 5,911,422 boardings | ||||||||||||||
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Burrard Station 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 Discovery Square 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 five 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, North and 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 tower complex. A connection to the Royal Centre complex was constructed some years later, while an anticipated underground passage to Park Place skyscraper was never built.
Station information
Station layout
| S | Street Level | |
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| C | Concourse Level | Connection to Royal Centre and Bentall Centre |
| T1 | Train Level 1 | Inbound platform to Waterfront (Platform 1) |
| T2 | Train Level 2 | Outbound platform (Platform 2) |
Platform assignment
| Platform | Direction | Line | Destination | Opened |
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| 1 | Westbound | ■ Expo | Waterfront | 1985 |
| ■ Millennium | ||||
| 2 | Eastbound | ■ Expo | King George | |
| ■ Millennium | VCC–Clark |
Station entrances and connections
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.
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. At platform level, the access to the elevator is behind a narrow door and a short corridor[1].
Transit Exchange
Burrard Station provides an on-street transit exchange on Burrard, Dunsmiur, and Thurlow Street. Bus bay assignments is as follows[2]:
| Bay | Location | Routes |
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| 1 | Burrard Street | 2 Macdonald-16th Ave 22 Macdonald 32 Dunbar 44 UBC N22 Macdonald-Dunbar |
| 2 | Dunsmuir Street | 209 Upper Lynn Valley (limited service) 210 Upper Lynn Valley 211 Seymour (PM peak only) 214 Blueridge (PM peak only) |
| 3 | Dunsmuir Street | 160 Port Coquitlam Station 190 Coquitlam Station (PM peak only) |
| 4 | Thurlow Street | 2 Macdonald-16th Ave |
| 5 | Burrard Street | 22 Knight 44 Downtown N22 Downtown |
| 6 | Burrard Street | 135 SFU |
References
- ^ "Expo Line Station Review". Translink. Retrieved November, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Map of Burrard Station
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