Brentwood Town Centre station explained

Brentwood Town Centre
Symbol Location:vancouver
Symbol:millennium
Type:SkyTrain station
Style:TransLink (BC)
Style2:SkyTrain
Address:4533 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby
Structure:Elevated
Platform:Side platforms
Tracks:2
Opened:August 31, 2002
Accessible:yes
Architect:Perkins and Will Canada
Code:BR
Owned:TransLink
Zone:2

Brentwood Town Centre (sometimes abbreviated as Brentwood) is an elevated station on the Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located above Lougheed Highway east of Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The station is adjacent to the Amazing Brentwood, a mid-size shopping centre.

Structure and design

Brentwood Town Centre station is the only station in the system that is built on a median, with the entire station footprint located directly above a roadway. The station is also designed to serve as a pedestrian overpass across Lougheed Highway, which required the station platforms to be high above the roadway and a publicly accessible mezzanine/concourse to be built below the platform level. Only two other Millennium Line stations have this feature, Gilmore and Lougheed Town Centre stations.

The station is built using a combination of wood and steel, custom-designed to provide a curved appearance. The extensive use of glass for the outer wall makes the station glow at night.

On May 11, 2002, Perkins and Will Canada, designers of the station, were honoured for their work with a Governor General's Medal in Architecture.[1]

In 2020, a $33-million program[2] was announced which featured the rebuilding of the station's south entrance to improve accessibility and increase capacity in response to population growth in the area. The staircases were to be enclosed in glass and supplemented by a new elevator.[3] Construction began on June 20, 2022, and opened on January 8, 2024.[4]

Station information

Entrances

North entrance : A set of stairs and an elevator connecting the station concourse with the sidewalk on the north side of Lougheed Highway. A bus stop located directly in front of the entrance provides a drop-off for SkyTrain connections without the need to go to the bus loop.

North Entrance Mall/Bus Loop Access : Connects to the Amazing Brentwood shopping centre, bus loop, and the station with a long ramp and walkway. The walkway connects to the station at the north end of the concourse level, and it is completely covered and weather-protected.

South entrance : A set of stairs and an elevator connecting the station concourse with the sidewalk on the south side of Lougheed Highway. This entrance provides an alternate connection to various bus routes that serve the station.

Transit connections

See also: List of bus routes in Metro Vancouver.

Brentwood Town Centre station is a major regional connection point for bus routes serving north Burnaby, Metrotown, North Vancouver and New Westminster. It is also has a connection to the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).

Bus bay assignments are effective as of April 6, 2020. Bus bay assignments are as follows:[5]

BayLocationRoutes
1Willingdon Avenue
2Lougheed Highway
  • 134 Lake City Station
  • N9 Downtown NightBus
3Lougheed Highway
136 Lougheed Station
4Lougheed Highway
123 New Westminster Station
5Lougheed Highway
6Willingdon Avenue
  • 25 Brentwood Station
  • 123 Brentwood Station
  • 130 To Pender / Kootenay Loop / Phibbs Exchange
7Willingdon Avenue

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Perkins + Will Canada: Awards. August 3, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20141018182943/http://perkinswill.com/work/brentwood-skytrain-station.html. October 18, 2014. dead.
  2. News: Chan . Kenneth . February 28, 2020 . SkyTrain's Brentwood Station to undergo major renovation for increased capacity . Daily Hive . March 23, 2022.
  3. News: Chan . Kenneth . March 9, 2022 . Construction to begin on $33 million SkyTrain Brentwood Station expansion . Daily Hive . March 23, 2022.
  4. https://buzzer.translink.ca/2024/01/an-all-new-south-entrance-opens-at-skytrains-brentwood-town-centre-station/
  5. Web site: Brentwood Town Centre Station . April 2020 . June 6, 2022.