Olympic Village is an underground station on the

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's SkyTrain

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system. The station is located at the intersection of

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and West 2nd Avenue, adjacent to the Cambie Street Bridge in

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, British Columbia, Canada. The station is located in the Fairview neighbourhood and serves the South False Creek residential and commercial areas, which included the

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built for the

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. The use of the term "Olympic" was licensed for use by the

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History

During the planning and approval process for the Canada Line, Olympic Village station was initially intended for completion along with the rest of the line. When the cost of the project had to be scaled back by TransLink (circa 2005), the station was deferred until after the opening of the Canada Line; however, the City of Vancouver owned the station site and decided to fund the station's construction to spur redevelopment of its lands and the nearby Southeast False Creek neighbourhood, and the station's construction was restored to the initial phase. The station opened in 2009 and was designed by the architecture firm VIA Architecture. "Olympic Village" is the third name for this station: its original proposed names were "2nd Avenue" and later "False Creek South".

Services

Olympic Village is within a short walk of the

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and

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ferry stop at Spyglass and Stamp's Landing. Both companies provide service to

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, David Lam Park, Yaletown, Plaza of Nations and Science World, while False Creek Ferries provides service to Kitsilano and the West End. The station was within walking distance of Leg-In-Boot station on the

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, a

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service that operated on weekends from 1998 to 2011, connecting Science World and

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to Granville Island. The Downtown Historic Railway is currently not operating due to financial constraints. During the

, the Olympic Line, a temporary streetcar demonstration service, operated on the Downtown Historic Railway between Olympic Village station and Granville Island.

Station information

Station layout

Entrances

Olympic Village is served by a single entrance located on 2nd Avenue at the southwest end of the Cambie Street Bridge.

Transit connections

The following bus routes can be found in close proximity to Olympic Village station:

Public art

Outside the station is a sculpture by Marie Khouri, "Le Banc" or "The Bench", intended to double as a bench for people to sit in. Soon after the Canada Line opened, the sculpture was disfigured by

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who used it as a ramp. The work was repaired by Khouri at her own expense.

References

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