Production Way–University Station

Production Way–University Station is a rapid transit station on the Millennium Line, a part of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. It is located at the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Production Way in Burnaby, British Columbia.

The station was intended to be a major transfer point to Simon Fraser University, so as well as having local suburban bus connections, it is the terminus to the #145 bus running to SFU, which carries just over half of all bus traffic to the university. The station's commercial space has a Mac's Convenience Store, a Subway restaurant, a pizza place, and a coffee shop. This station has a 220 space park and ride.

The SFU Community Trust has proposed extending the TransLink system from this station through the installation of a tri-cable gondola lift to travel up Burnaby Mountain to the SFU Transit Exchange. The proposed lift would use a 30 passenger Doppelmayr Garaventa 3S Gondola, the same model as the Whistler Blackcomb Peak 2 Peak Gondola. The Trust has proposed the gondola because it felt the system is not weather-dependent like the current buses. It is also cheaper to maintain, and also more environmentally friendly. The provincial government has commissioned a feasibility study for the proposal; if approved by the province and TransLink, the lift could have been operational by 2014. In 2012, a business case concluded that the cost of building and operating a gondola would cost $12 million more compared to continuing to serve the SFU campus by bus. Therefore, the construction of a gondola is unlikely to proceed in the short term.

Bus service

Bus bay assignments;

1 - 145 SFU (Loading)

2 - 110 Metrotown Station, 136 Lougheed Station, N9 Coquitlam Station

3 - 110 Lougheed Station, 136 Brentwood Station

4 - 145 Production Station (Unloading), N9 Downtown NightBus

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