Vancouver City Centre Station

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Vancouver City Centre
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SkyTrain station
File:Vancouver City Centre Station.jpg
Location 702 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
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Owned by TransLink
Platforms Centre platform
Tracks 2
Connections Translinkexpo.png Translinkmillennium.png Granville
Construction
Structure type Underground
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code VS
Fare zone 1
History
Opened August 17, 2009
Traffic
Passengers (2011[1]) 29,383
Services
Preceding station   TransLink   Following station
Canada Line
Airport
Terminus
Canada Line
Richmond

Vancouver City Centre Station is a SkyTrain station on the Canada Line in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Location

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Construction progresses at Granville and Georgia Streets outside Sears.

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.

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 Station 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

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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

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