Vancouver City Centre station
Vancouver City Centre  | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | 702 West Georgia Street, Vancouver | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°16′55″N 123°07′08″W / 49.28202°N 123.11875°WCoordinates: 49°16′55″N 123°07′08″W / 49.28202°N 123.11875°W | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | TransLink | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Centre platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |
 Granville | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Subway | ||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | VS | ||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | August 17, 2009 | ||||||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||||||
| Passengers (2011[1]) | 29,383 | ||||||||||||||
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Vancouver City Centre is a SkyTrain station on the Canada Line in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Location
Vancouver City Centre station is located on Granville Street, between West Georgia Street and Robson Street in Downtown Vancouver. The station serves the shopping and entertainment districts along Granville and Robson streets, and the office and shopping complexes of Pacific Centre and Vancouver Centre.
The station is also within walking distance of such amenities as Robson Square (home of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Provincial Court of British Columbia, and a UBC satellite campus), the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver Library Square, TD Tower, Scotia Tower and the HSBC Canada Building.
Platform and tracks
| M | Exit/entrance, Faregates, Station agent | |
| Platforms | Inbound | ← ■ Canada Line towards Waterfront (Terminus) |
| Outbound | ■ Canada Line towards Richmond-Brighouse (Yaletown-Roundhouse) → ■ Canada Line towards YVR–Airport (Yaletown-Roundhouse) → | |
Services
The station is located within short walking distance of bus stops for bus services throughout Vancouver (especially the trolleybus services on Granville Mall) and to the North Shore. There are underground connections between Vancouver City Centre and both Pacific Centre and Vancouver Centre. Passengers are able to transfer between the Canada Line and the Expo and Millennium Lines (the latter two serving Granville station) by walking through Pacific Centre or Vancouver Centre and The Bay department store, although the only direct transfer point is at Waterfront station.
Bus Routes
The following bus routes can be found in close proximity to Vancouver City Centre Station:[2]
Local Services
- 4 UBC/Powell
- 5 Robson
- 6 Davie
- 7 Dunbar/Nanaimo Station
- 10 Granville
- 14 UBC
- 16 Arbutus/29th Avenue Station
- 20 Victoria
- 50 False Creek South
North Shore Services
- 240 15th Street
- 241 Upper Lonsdale (peak only)
- 242 Upper Lonsdale (weekend early mornings)
- 246 Highland
- 247 Upper Capilano (peak only)
- 250 Horseshoe Bay
- 250A Dundarave
- 253 Caulfield (peak only)
- 254 British Properties (peak only)
- 257 Horseshoe Bay Express
Night Buses
- N6 West End
- N8 Fraser
- N9 Coquitlam Station
- N10 Brighouse Station
- N17 UBC
- N15 Cambie
- N19 Surrey Central Station
- N20 Victoria
- N22 Macdonald-Dunbar
- N24 Lynn Valley Centre
- N35 SFU
References
- ↑ "2011 SkyTrain Station Counts". TransLink. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
- ↑ "Granville Station & Vancouver City Centre Station Map" (PDF). TransLink. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
External links
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