Lougheed Town Centre station

Lougheed Town Centre
SkyTrain station
Location	9755 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby
Coordinates	49°14′54″N 122°53′49″W / 49.24846°N 122.89702°W / 49.24846; -122.89702Coordinates: 49°14′54″N 122°53′49″W / 49.24846°N 122.89702°W / 49.24846; -122.89702
Owned by	BC Ministry of Transportation, TransLink
Platforms	Centre platform Side platform
Tracks	3
Connections	97 B-Line
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	LH
Fare zone	2 (2/3 for bus loop)
History
Opened	August 31, 2002
Traffic
Passengers (2011[1])	28,726
Services
Preceding station   TransLink   Following station Production Way–University Terminus Expo Line Lougheed Braid toward Waterfront via Columbia Production Way–University toward VCC–Clark Millennium Line Burquitlam toward Lafarge Lake–Douglas

Lougheed Town Centre (sometimes abbreviated as Lougheed) is a station on the SkyTrain rapid transit system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and was constructed as part of the Millennium Line. A reorganization of SkyTrain service patterns in 2016 brought a branch of the Expo Line over the existing tracks to also serve the station and—from October 22, 2016, until the opening of the Evergreen Extension on December 2 of that same year—the station served as the interim terminus of the new Millennium Line service.

It is currently one of three stations where transfer between the Expo Line and the Millennium Line is possible. The other two points of transfer are Commercial–Broadway and Production Way–University.

Location

The station is located on Lougheed Highway in an elevated structure across Austin Road in Burnaby, and is directly adjacent to Lougheed Town Centre, a mid-size shopping mall, from where it takes its name. A large Korean neighbourhood, referred to colloquially as Korea Town, exists in the area surrounding North Road south of Lougheed Highway.

Services

The station is served by a bus loop with routes including the 97 B-Line, which connects it to Coquitlam Central station. This and other bus connections to Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, and Coquitlam areas make Lougheed station a major transportation hub for the area and one of the busiest stations on the Millennium Line.

On October 22, 2016, Expo Line service commenced at the station, with trains to travelling between Waterfront and Production Way–University.^[2]

Evergreen Extension

An unfinished third platform had been roughed in on the east side of the station during its construction, in anticipation of a future connection for a SkyTrain extension to the Coquitlam. The provincial government postponed the extension in the early 2000s, and in the interim TransLink decided to use light rail technology for the alignment instead of Bombardier's Advanced Rapid Transit technology (as used on SkyTrain's Expo and Millennium lines), rendering the roughed-in platform and the adjacent switches obsolete. However, the provincial government announced new plans for the line in 2008, including the use of SkyTrain or similar technology, so this third platform will now be used when the line opens. This will allow Millennium Line trains to run seamlessly between VCC–Clark and Lafarge Lake–Douglas station.

Construction began in mid-2012, and on December 2, 2016, the Evergreen Extension commence.^[3] At the start of the Evergreen Extension's operation, the Millennium Line route will no longer interline with the Expo Line between Columbia and Waterfront nor will it serve Braid or Sapperton. Instead, the Expo Line will branch at Columbia toward Sapperton, then Braid, and interline with the Millennium Line between this station and Production Way–University, while Millennium line (which will replace the 97 B-Line on December 19, 2016) connects VCC–Clark and Lafarge Lake–Douglas station in Coquitlam.

Station information

Platform 3 for Evergreen Extension

Station layout

Station entrances and connections

Gatineau Place/Bus Loop Entrance is located on the east end of the station, connecting the platform with bus loop at street level with elevators and both up and down escalators. Retail shops are available at this entrance. Bus and HandyDart drop-off areas are located on Gatineau Place, in front of the station plaza. See Lougheed Town Centre Station#Transit exchange for a list of other bus connections.

Austin Avenue Entrance is located on the west end of the station platform. An elevator linking the street, concourse, and platform levels; however, there is no escalator between street and concourse level. Pepsi vending machines are available at concourse level.

• Transit connection is available westbound on Lougheed Highway, near the station entrance:

136 Brentwood Station

N9 Downtown Night Bus

Austin Avenue Mall Access connects the Lougheed Town Centre mall to the concouse level of Austin Avenue entrance with a long walkway through mall parking lot. The walkway is mostly weather protected, with the exception of few pedestrian crossings.

Transit exchange

Lougheed Town Centre station provides an off-street transit exchange in between Gatineau Place and Lougheed Highway. The station is close to the boundary of Burnaby (fare zone 2) and Coquitlam (fare zone 3), and about half of the connecting routes are local services within zone 3. Hence the entire bus loop is being given a common fare zone 2/3.^[4] Bus bay assignments is as follows:^[5]

References

External links

Media related to Lougheed Town Centre Station at Wikimedia Commons