Coquitlam Central station
Coquitlam Central | ||||||||||||||||
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| TransLink station | ||||||||||||||||
.jpg) SkyTrain platforms at Coquitlam Central | ||||||||||||||||
| Location |
2920 Barnet Highway, Coquitlam Canada | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°16′26″N 122°48′00″W / 49.27389°N 122.80000°WCoordinates: 49°16′26″N 122°48′00″W / 49.27389°N 122.80000°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | BC Transit, TransLink | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Canadian Pacific Railway | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms |
1 side platform (West Coast Express) Side platform (SkyTrain) | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Connections |
 97 B-Line | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | At grade and elevated | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | 601 spaces | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | lockers | |||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened |
November 1, 1995 (West Coast Express) December 2, 2016 (SkyTrain) | |||||||||||||||
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Coquitlam Central is a station served by both Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain metro system and its West Coast Express commuter rail system. The station is located on the north side of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) tracks in Coquitlam, just west of the Lougheed Highway rail overpass, near the Coquitlam Centre shopping mall. The platform is located on the south side of the tracks accessed via a pedestrian tunnel. The adjacent bus loop opened in the early 1990s, while the train station opened in 1995, when the West Coast Express began operating, connecting Vancouver with Mission, British Columbia. 601 parking spaces are available on site.[1] All services are operated by TransLink.
On December 2, 2016, the Millennium Line's Evergreen Extension entered revenue service at the station, providing service to VCC–Clark in Vancouver and Lafarge Lake–Douglas in Coquitlam.[2][3]
History
Canadian Pacific Railway brought the first passenger train service to the area in the 1880s, with the first permanent station built at Fraser Mills in 1910, on the branch line to New Westminster. The train was a vital factor in bringing new settlement, including loggers and their families, into the Coquitlam area.[4]
The area around Coquitlam Centre has been an important focal point for bus services since the 1970s. Prior to the early 1990s, buses converged along Pinetree Way north of the intersection of Lougheed and Barnet Highway. In the early 1990s, a bus exchange was built on the southwest corner of the intersection, in roughly the same location as the current exchange, which was built during or after construction of the adjacent West Coast Express station.
Services
West Coast Express
Coquitlam Central is served by five West Coast Express trains per day in each direction: five in the morning to Vancouver, and five in the evening to Mission. In addition, there are two buses (called the "TrainBus") operating from Mission to Vancouver in the morning (after all trains) and three in the evening returning to Mission in the evening (again, after all trains), stopping at all West Coast Express stations. On the weekend with no rail service there are three inbound a.m. buses and three outbound p.m. ones; with two each way on Sundays. The station is adjacent to a major bus exchange and park-and-ride facility, which is served by 97 B-Line buses to Lougheed Town Centre station and by local and express buses Community Shuttle minibuses.
SkyTrain
The Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line extended the SkyTrain network northeast from Lougheed Town Centre station, integrating with Coquitlam Central along the way. Construction began in the summer of 2012, with the Evergreen Extension opening for revenue service at Coquitlam Central on December 2, 2016.[5]
Bus routes
Bus bay assignments:[6]
| Bay | Route | Destination |
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| 1 | 143 | Simon Fraser University |
| 150 | White Pine Beach Special May to September only | |
| C26 | Buntzen Lake Special July to September only | |
| 2 | 97 B-Line | Lougheed Station |
| 3 | 188 | Port Coquitlam Station |
| C38 | Prairie Victoria at Rocklin | |
| 4 | C27 | Port Moody Station via Heritage Woods |
| C29 | Parkway Boulevard via Plateau Boulevard | |
| 5 | C30 | Lafarge Park Harwood at Gabriola |
| 6 | 701 | Haney Place Maple Ridge East Dewdney Trunk at 248th |
| N9 | Downtown Howe at Dunsmuir | |
| 7 | 160 | Port Coquitlam Station |
| 8 | 178 | Port Moody Station (peak only, Monday to Friday) |
| C28 | Port Moody Station via Noons Creek | |
| 9 | 151 | Lougheed Station via Coquitlam Rec Centre |
| 10 | 152 | Lougheed Station via Austin via Chilko (peak only) |
| 11 | 169 | Braid Station |
| 12 | 160 | Vancouver via Barnet Drop-Off Only Burrard Station |
| 190 | Vancouver Burrard Station (morning peak hours only) | |
| 13 | WCE | Waterfront Mission City |
References
- ↑ "Park and Ride Text Only". TransLink. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
- ↑ "Evergreen Extension". TransLink. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ↑ Brown, Scott (November 7, 2016). "TransLink will open Evergreen Line on Dec. 2". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ↑ "Fraser Mills Railway Station". Art by Joy A. Kirkwood. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
- ↑ Mason, Kenny; Aslam, Sonia (September 8, 2016). "Despite delays, Evergreen Line to open before Christmas". News1130. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ↑ "Coquitlam Station" (PDF). TransLink. April 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
External links
Media related to Coquitlam Central Station at Wikimedia Commons