Metrotown Station is an elevated SkyTrain

SkyTrain (Vancouver)

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 station on the Expo Line in Burnaby, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada. It is the second-busiest station in the SkyTrain system. The station is located on the south side of Central Boulevard, east of Willingdon Avenue.

History

Metrotown Station was built and opened in December 1985 as part of the original Expo Line of SkyTrain. The overhead walkway leading to Metropolis at Metrotown was added to the station in 1989 with the opening of the shopping centres. Originally, the bus loop was open-air and connect to the station via an at grade street crossing.

The station was originally designed as a suburban station serving residential neighbourhoods and local transit connections. It experienced a major traffic increase since the opening of nearby shopping centres, and the current passenger load and circulation already surpassed the design capacity of the station. As of 2011, Translink

Translink

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 has established formal plans to retrofit and redesign the station to improve passenger flow and increase station capacity.

Services

• Metrotown Station is a major connection point for the TransLink bus routes in southern Vancouver and Burnaby.
• The station is connected via overhead walkway across Central Boulevard to a bus loop and Metropolis
  Metrotown
  Metropolis at Metrotown is a shopping mall complex in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. With over 450 shops and services, it is the largest mall in British Columbia, and the 2nd largest in Canada...
  
   and Station Square malls.

• The Crystal Mall and many other retail developments are nearby on Kingsway, one block north of the station.
• Metrotown branch of the Burnaby Public Library
  Burnaby Public Library
  Burnaby Public Library or BPL is a public library that serves Burnaby, British Columbia and the surrounding Lower Mainland. It allows users to borrow books, videos, dvds and magazines.-History:...
  
   is also one block away form the station.
• An ATM is available on the concourse level of the station.
• There is an A&W and Starbucks Coffee on the opposite end of the pedestrian overpass, near the mall entrance.

Station layout

T	Train Level
C	Concourse Level	East entrances only Connection to Metropolis, Station Square, bus loop
S	Street Level

Station entrances and connections

East Entrance is located on the BC Parkway, north of Beresford Street and south of Central Boulvard. It can be found at the far east end of the platform. There is no elevator for this entrance, and no escalator is available between street and concourse level. The entrance is in close proximity to Bay 9 of the Metrotown transit exchange for connections to south Burnaby community shuttle services.

East Entrance Mall Access connects bus loop, Metropolis, and Station Square shopping centres with the concourse level through a narrow pedestrian overpass. The overpass also contains a stair access to the north side of Central Boulvard. Although up and down escalators are provided by bus loop and shopping centres, the overpass is at a slightly higher level than the concourse of the station, which results in 3 steps of stairs the station entrance.

• This entrance serves the majority of transit connection to the station with Bay 1 to 8 of the transit exchange. See Metrotown Station#Transit exchange for a list of connections.

West Entrance is an elevator-only access at the south side of Central Boulvard. The elevator connects street level directly with platform bypassing the concourse level. Ticket vending machines and validators can be found at street level. This entrance provides connection to HandyDart service.

Transit exchange

Metrotown Station provides an partial off-street transit exchange on Beresford Street, and in front of the ground-level entrance to Metropolis shopping centre. Bus bay assignments is as follows:

Bay	Location	Routes
1	Bus Loop	116 Edmonds Station Edmonds Station Edmonds Station is located on an at-grade portion of the Expo Line, a part of Vancouver, British Columbia's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station itself is in southern Burnaby...
2	Bus Loop	19 Stanley Park Stanley Park Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectare urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was opened in 1888 by David Oppenheimer in the name of Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada....
3	Bus Loop	49 Dunbar Loop Dunbar Loop Dunbar Loop is one of the major transit exchanges in the western side of Vancouver. Part of the TransLink system, it is the westernmost exchange in the city of Vancouver...  / UBC UBC - Universities :* University of British Columbia, a major Canadian university with its main campus in Greater Vancouver* UBC Okanagan, the campus in Kelowna, British Columbia* UBC Thunderbirds, the athletic program of the main campus- Athletics :...
4	Bus Loop	130 To Hastings / Phibbs Exchange Phibbs Exchange Phibbs Exchange is the major transit exchange for the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia. Part of the TransLink system, it is home to routes serving North Vancouver and some parts of the city of Vancouver...  / Capilano University
5	Bus Loop	129 Edmonds Station
6	Bus Loop	144 SFU
7	Bus Loop	106 New Westminster Station New Westminster Station New Westminster Station is located at Columbia Street and 8th Street in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, and was the original eastern terminus of SkyTrain until 1989 prior to the partial completion and opening of the phase two extension of SkyTrain to Surrey.-History:The station was... 112 New Westminster Station (limited service)
8	Bus Loop	110 Lougheed Station 430 Richmond-Brighouse Station Richmond-Brighouse Station Richmond–Brighouse Station is the southern terminus of the Canada Line, part of the SkyTrain system in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, in the Metro Vancouver region.-Location:...
9	Beresford Street Westbound	C6 Suncrest C7 Edmonds Station