Brentwood Town Centre Station
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Brentwood Town Centre
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| Location | 4533 Lougheed Highway, Burnaby | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°15′59″N 123°00′06″W / 49.26633°N 123.00163°WCoordinates: 49°15′59″N 123°00′06″W / 49.26633°N 123.00163°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | BC Ministry of Transportation, TransLink | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | BR | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | August 31, 2002 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 11,515 | ||||||||||
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Brentwood Town Centre station (sometimes abbreviated as Brentwood station) is located on an elevated portion of the Millennium Line. The station is a part of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system, and is one of the busier stations on the Millennium Line.
The station is located near the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby.
Brentwood Town Centre station is located directly above Lougheed Highway. It is the only station in the system that is built on 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 requires the station platforms to be high above the roadway and a mezzanine/concourse to be built below the platform level. The station is one of the only three on Millennium Line, beside Lougheed Town Centre station and Gilmore station, that features a concourse level.
The station is built using a combination of wood and steel, customly designed to provide a curved appearance. The extensive use of glass for the outer wall make the station glow at night. On May 11, 2002, Perkins+Will Canada, designers of the station, were honoured for their work with a Governor General's Medal in Architecture.
North Entrance 
contains 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 faster SkyTrain connection without the need of going to the bus loop. The stop serves the routes:
North Entrance Mall/Bus Loop Access connects the Brentwood Town Centre mall, bus loop, and the station with a long ramp and walkway. The walkway enters the station at the north end of the concourse level, and it is completely covered and weather protected. See Brentwood Town Centre station#Transit exchange for a list of connections.
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