Lougheed Town Centre (sometimes abbreviated as Lougheed) is an elevated station on the
Expo
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and
Millennium Line
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s of
Metro Vancouver
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's
SkyTrain rapid transit
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system. The station is located at
Lougheed Highway Lougheed is an Irish variant of a surname of Scottish origins, meaning ''head of the lake''. Lougheed or Loughead may refer to:
Places
* Lougheed, Alberta, a Canadian village
* Lougheed Island, Nunavut, Canada
* Lougheed Highway, part of British Co ...
and Austin Road in
Burnaby
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, British Columbia, Canada. Initially a Millennium Line station, a reorganization of SkyTrain service patterns in 2016 brought a branch of the Expo Line over the existing tracks to serve the station. It is one of three stations where transfer between the Expo Line and the Millennium Line is possible, the other two such points of transfer being
Commercial–Broadway and
Production Way–University stations.
The station is adjacent to a mid-size shopping mall,
the City of Lougheed
The City of Lougheed is the second-largest shopping centre in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, with and over 160 shops and services. It is located in the northeast corner of Burnaby near the Coquitlam border. The centre is located adjacent to ...
, formerly named "Lougheed Town Centre", from which the station drew its name. A Korean neighbourhood exists within walking distance of the south side of the station.
History
Lougheed Town Centre station was opened in 2002 as part of the original Millennium Line project. The station was designed by the architecture firm Paul Merrick Architects.
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 Coquitlam. The provincial government suspended plans for the extension in the early 2000s, and in the interim
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* TransLink (British Columbia), the public transport operator in Vancouver, Canada
* Translink (Northern Ireland)
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decided to use
light rail technology for the alignment instead of
Bombardier's
Advanced Rapid Transit technology (as used on
SkyTrain's
Expo
An expo is a trade exposition. It may also refer to:
Events and venues
* World's fair, a large international public exposition
* Singapore Expo, convention and exposition venue
** Expo Axis, one of the world's largest membrane roofs, constructe ...
and
Millennium Line
The Millennium Line is the second line of the SkyTrain rapid transit system in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada. The line is owned and operated by BC Rapid Transit Company, a subsidiary of TransLink, and links the cities ...
s), which would have rendered the roughed-in platform and the adjacent switches obsolete.
In 2008, the provincial government announced new plans for the line, including a return to the use of SkyTrain technology. As a result, the third platform at the station would be built and used to connect to the
Evergreen Extension
The Evergreen Extension (previously known as the Evergreen Line) is a extension of the Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The extension runs from Lougheed Town Centre in Burnaby to Lafarge Lake–Douglas in Co ...
stations. In 2012, construction began on the Evergreen Extension, which included the third platform at Lougheed Town Centre station.
In 2016, SkyTrain service was reconfigured in anticipation of the opening of the Evergreen Extension; as a result, Lougheed Town Centre station became a temporary terminus station of the Millennium Line on October 22, 2016, with service running between
VCC–Clark station
VCC–Clark is an elevated station on the Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is named after the nearby Vancouver Community College (VCC) located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and serves as th ...
and this station. At the same time, the third platform at the station opened, and a new
Expo Line branch running between
Waterfront and
Production Way–University stations was created to serve the station. When the Evergreen Extension opened on December 2, 2016,
Lafarge Lake–Douglas station
Lafarge Lake–Douglas is a rapid transit station on the Millennium Line, part of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain system, which serves as the line's outbound terminus. It is located in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada and opened for service on Dece ...
became the eastern Millennium Line terminus.
For the first 18 months of service on the Evergreen Extension, the third platform served eastbound trains while the southern half of the island platform served westbound trains (with Millennium Line trains running left-handed through the station); this measure allowed a cross-platform transfer between Millennium Line trains headed to VCC–Clark station and Expo Line trains headed to Waterfront station (via
Columbia station). On June 25, 2018, normal right-hand running of Millennium Line trains through the station resumed, making it possible to do a cross-platform transfer between Expo Line trains headed for Production Way–University station and Millennium Line trains headed to Lafarge Lake–Douglas station.
Services
The station is served by a bus loop and was the western terminus for the defunct
97 B-Line
The 97 B-Line was an express bus line in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It connected Coquitlam Central station on the West Coast Express system to Lougheed Town Centre station on the SkyTrain (Vancouver), SkyTrain system. It was operat ...
, which connected to
Coquitlam Central station
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. Other bus connections to Burnaby,
New Westminster
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,
Port Moody
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, and
Coquitlam
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areas make Lougheed Town Centre station a major transportation hub for the area and one of the busiest stations on the Millennium Line. On March 27, 2022, the
Chilliwack Transit System
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moved the western terminus of
BC Transit
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route 66 Fraser Valley Express to Lougheed Town Centre station, providing bus service to
Abbotsford and
Chilliwack
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.
Station information
![Lougheed Station Platform 3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Lougheed_Station_Platform_3.jpg)
Station layout
Entrances
![Lougheed–Gatineau Place entrance](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Lougheed%E2%80%93Gatineau_Place_entrance.jpg)
* Austin Road entrance : located at the west end of the station platform, with an elevator linking the street, concourse, and platform levels; however, there is no escalator between street and concourse level.
* Gatineau Place entrance : located at the east end of the station, connecting the platform with the bus loop at street level via elevators and both up and down escalators. Retail shops are present at this entrance. Bus and HandyDart drop-off areas are also located on Gatineau Place, in front of the station plaza.
* Mall entrance : located on the concourse level of the Austin Road entrance. It connects to
the City of Lougheed
The City of Lougheed is the second-largest shopping centre in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, with and over 160 shops and services. It is located in the northeast corner of Burnaby near the Coquitlam border. The centre is located adjacent to ...
via a weather-protected walkway through the mall parking lot.
Transit connections
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). , bus bay assignments were as follows:
References
External links
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Expo Line (SkyTrain) stations
Millennium Line stations
Evergreen Extension stations
Railway stations in Canada opened in 2002
Buildings and structures in Burnaby
2002 establishments in British Columbia