Metrotown Station
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 The bustling platform at Metrotown Station in Burnaby is the 2nd busiest in the SkyTrain system. |
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| First opened: | 1985 |
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| Line(s): | Expo Line, Millennium Line |
| Connections | 19 Stanley Park 49 Dunbar Loop / UBC 106 New Westminster Station 110 Lougheed Station 112 Lougheed Station 116, 129 Edmonds Station 130 Hastings / Phibbs Exchange 144 SFU 430 Richmond Centre C6 Suncrest C7 Edmonds Station |
The Metrotown Station of the SkyTrain system is an elevated station located on the Expo Line in Burnaby, Canada.
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[edit] Location
The station is located on Central Boulevard, east of Willingdon Avenue, on the south side of Burnaby's Metrotown Shopping Centre.
Station Square mall is accessible by a skyway. The Crystal Mall and many other retail developments are in the Kingsway vicinity to the immediate north of the Station –
[edit] History
The Metrotown Station was built in 1985 on part of the original Expo Line. One of the system's busiest stations, it is connected by a skyway to Metrotown Centre, the largest mall in all of British Columbia, and second largest mall in Canada.
[edit] Services
The station is a major connection point for the TransLink bus routes in southern Burnaby. Metrotown Station is the eastern terminus of the #49 bus route, which runs to Dunbar Loop and to the University of British Columbia when it is in session.
[edit] Trivia
Metrotown Station is located on the old right-of-way once used by the old British Columbia Electric Railway Central Park Line; this line ran from just west of Nanaimo Station to where the current New Westminster Station is located.
[edit] The next station is...
| TERMINUS | ← NEXT STATION INBOUND | Metrotown | NEXT STATION OUTBOUND → | TERMINUS | ||
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| Waterfront | Patterson | Expo Line | Royal Oak | King George | ||
| Millennium Line | VCC-Clark | |||||
