Brentwood Town Centre station

Brentwood Town Centre
SkyTrain station
Location	4533 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby
Coordinates	49°15′59″N 123°00′06″W / 49.26633°N 123.00163°W / 49.26633; -123.00163Coordinates: 49°15′59″N 123°00′06″W / 49.26633°N 123.00163°W / 49.26633; -123.00163
Owned by	BC Ministry of Transportation, TransLink
Platforms	Side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	BR
Fare zone	2
History
Opened	August 31, 2002
Traffic
Passengers (2011[1])	11,515
Services
Preceding station   TransLink   Following station Gilmore toward VCC–Clark Millennium Line Holdom toward Lafarge Lake–Douglas

Brentwood Town Centre station (sometimes abbreviated as Brentwood station) is located on an elevated portion of the Millennium Line. The station is a part of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system, and is one of the busier stations on the Millennium Line.

The station is located near the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby.

Service

• Brentwood Town Centre is a major connection point to local bus routes for north Burnaby, as well as regional routes connecting Metrotown, North Vancouver, and New Westminster. It is also a major connection point on Millennium Line serving BCIT.
• The station is directly adjacent to Brentwood Town Centre, a mid-size shopping mall, with stores like Sears Canada and London Drugs.
• Brentwood Town Centre is a possible terminus for the proposed 91 B-Line.

Design

Brentwood Town Centre station is located directly above Lougheed Highway. It is the only station in the system that is built on median, with the entire station footprint located directly above a roadway. The station is also designed to serve as a pedestrian overpass across Lougheed Highway, which requires the station platforms to be high above the roadway and a mezzanine/concourse to be built below the platform level. The station is one of the only three on Millennium Line, beside Lougheed Town Centre station and Gilmore station, that features a concourse level.

The station is built using a combination of wood and steel, customly designed to provide a curved appearance. The extensive use of glass for the outer wall make the station glow at night. On May 11, 2002, Perkins+Will Canada, designers of the station, were honoured for their work with a Governor General's Medal in Architecture.^[2]

Station information

Station layout

Station entrances and connections

North Entrance contains a set of stairs and an elevator connecting the station concourse with the sidewalk on the north side of Lougheed Highway. A bus stop located directly in front of the entrance provides a drop-off for faster SkyTrain connection without the need of going to the bus loop. The stop serves the routes:

136 Brentwood Station

N9 Downtown Night Bus

HandyDart

North Entrance Mall/Bus Loop Access connects the Brentwood Town Centre mall, bus loop, and the station with a long ramp and walkway. The walkway enters the station at the north end of the concourse level, and it is completely covered and weather protected. See Brentwood Town Centre station#Transit exchange for a list of connections.

South Entrance is a stair-only access connecting the station concourse with the sidewalk on the south side of Lougheed Highway. This entrance provides alternative and potentially faster bus connections to various bus routes in the area.

• Transit connection on Lougheed Highway eastbound, near the entrance of the station:

136 Lougheed Station

N9 Coquitlam Station Night Bus

• The stop on northbound Willingdon Avenue near the station entrance serves routes one stop before the transit exchange:

25 Brentwood Station

123 Brentwood Station

130 To Hastings / Phibbs Exchange / Capilano University

• The stop on southbound Willingdon Avenue serves routes one stop after the transit exchange:

25 UBC

123 New Westminster Station

130 Metrotown Station

Transit exchange

Bus bay assignments are temporary as of August 2014. Bus bay assignments is as follows:^[3]

References

External links

Media related to Brentwood Station at Wikimedia Commons