Brentwood Town Centre station
Brentwood Town Centre  | |||||||||||
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| SkyTrain station | |||||||||||
 Station building in 2022 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 4533 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°15′59″N 123°00′06″W / 49.26633°N 123.00163°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | TransLink | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| Architect | Perkins and Will Canada | ||||||||||
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| Station code | BR | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | August 31, 2002 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2022–2024 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2023[1] | 2,119,600  26% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 27 of 53 | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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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 Amazing Brentwood, a mid-size shopping centre.
Structure and design
[edit]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]
In 2020, a $33-million program[3] was announced which featured the rebuilding of the station's south entrance to improve accessibility and increase capacity in response to population growth in the area. The staircases were to be enclosed in glass and supplemented by a new elevator.[4] Construction began on June 20, 2022, and opened on January 8, 2024.[5]
Station information
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Entrances
[edit]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 Amazing Brentwood shopping centre, 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 : A set of stairs and an elevator connecting the station concourse with the sidewalk on the south side of Lougheed Highway. This entrance provides an alternate connection to various bus routes that serve the station.
Transit connections
[edit]Brentwood Town Centre station is a major regional connection point for bus routes serving north Burnaby, 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:[6]
| Bay | Location | Routes |
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| 1 | Willingdon Avenue Northbound |
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| 2 | Lougheed Highway Westbound |
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| 3 | Lougheed Highway Eastbound |
136 Lougheed Station |
| 4 | Lougheed Highway Eastbound |
123 New Westminster Station |
| 5 | Lougheed Highway Eastbound |
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| 6 | Willingdon Avenue Northbound |
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| 7 | Willingdon Avenue Southbound |
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References
[edit]- ^ "2023 Transit Service Performance Review – SkyTrain Stations Summaries". tableau.com. TransLink. April 17, 2024. Archived from the original on April 30, 2024. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
- ^ "Perkins + Will Canada: Awards". Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
- ^ 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.
- ^ https://buzzer.translink.ca/2024/01/an-all-new-south-entrance-opens-at-skytrains-brentwood-town-centre-station/ [bare URL]
- ^ "Brentwood Town Centre Station" (PDF). April 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
External links
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Media related to Brentwood Town Centre station at Wikimedia Commons
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