Brentwood Town Centre station
Brentwood Town Centre (sometimes abbreviated as Brentwood) is an elevated station on the Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located above Lougheed Highway east of Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The station is adjacent to the Brentwood Town Centre mall, a mid-size shopping centre.
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| Location | 4533 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49.26633°N 123.00163°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | TransLink | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
| Architect | Perkins and Will Canada | ||||||||||
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| Station code | BR | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | August 31, 2002 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2019[1] | 1,792,000  5.5% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 31 of 53 | ||||||||||
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Structure and design
Brentwood Town Centre station is the only station in the system that is built on a 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 required the station platforms to be high above the roadway and a publicly accessible mezzanine/concourse to be built below the platform level. Only two other Millennium Line stations have this feature, Gilmore and Lougheed Town Centre stations.
The station is built using a combination of wood and steel, custom-designed to provide a curved appearance. The extensive use of glass for the outer wall makes the station glow at night.
On May 11, 2002, Perkins and Will Canada, designers of the station, were honoured for their work with a Governor General's Medal in Architecture.[2]
The station's south entrance is planned to be rebuilt to improve accessibility and increase capacity in response to population growth in the area. The staircases will be enclosed in glass and supplemented by a new elevator. The $33-million program was announced in 2020 and construction is expected to begin in April 2022 with completion in 2024.[3][4]
Station information
Station layout
| T | Side platform; doors will open on the right | |
| Platform 1 Inbound |
← ■ Millennium Line towards VCC–Clark (Gilmore) | |
| Platform 2 Outbound |
■ Millennium Line towards Lafarge Lake–Douglas (Holdom) → | |
| Side platform; doors will open on the right | ||
| C | Concourse Level | Connects to north and south ends of Lougheed Highway Fare gates, Compass vending machines |
| S | Street Level | Entrance/Exit |
Entrances
North Entrance 
: 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 SkyTrain connections without the need to go to the bus loop.
North Entrance Mall/Bus Loop Access : Connects to the Brentwood Town Centre mall, bus loop, and the station with a long ramp and walkway. The walkway connects to the station at the north end of the concourse level, and it is completely covered and weather-protected.
South Entrance: Stair-only access connecting the station concourse with the sidewalk on the south side of Lougheed Highway. This entrance provides an alternate connection to various bus routes in the area.
Transit connections
Brentwood Town Centre station is a major regional connection point for bus routes serving north Burnarby, Metrotown, North Vancouver and New Westminster. It is also has a connection to the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
Bus bay assignments are effective as of April 6, 2020. Bus bay assignments are as follows:[5]
| Bay | Location | Routes |
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| 1 | Willingdon Avenue Northbound |
130 To Pender / Kootenay Loop / Phibbs Exchange 222 Phibbs Exchange (Peak hours only) |
| 2 | Lougheed Highway Westbound |
134 Lake City Station N9 Downtown |
| 3 | Lougheed Highway Eastbound |
136 Lougheed Station |
| 4 | Lougheed Highway Eastbound |
123 New Westminster Station |
| 5 | Lougheed Highway Eastbound |
25 UBC N9 Coquitlam Station |
| 6 | Willingdon Avenue Northbound |
25 Brentwood Station 123 Brentwood Station 130 To Pender / Kootenay Loop / Phibbs Exchange |
| 7 | Willingdon Avenue Southbound |
130 Metrotown Station 222 Metrotown Station (Peak hours only) |
References
- "2019 Transit Service Performance Review – SkyTrain Stations Ranked by Annual Boardings" (PDF). translink.ca. TransLink. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 13, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
- "Perkins + Will Canada: Awards". Archived from the original on 2014-10-18. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- Chan, Kenneth (February 28, 2020). "SkyTrain's Brentwood Station to undergo major renovation for increased capacity". Daily Hive. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
- Chan, Kenneth (March 9, 2022). "Construction to begin on $33 million SkyTrain Brentwood Station expansion". Daily Hive. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-21. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
Media related to Brentwood Town Centre station at Wikimedia Commons
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