Vancouver City Centre station
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Vancouver City Centre
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| Location | 702 West Georgia Street, Vancouver | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°16′55″N 123°07′08″W / 49.28202°N 123.11875°WCoordinates: 49°16′55″N 123°07′08″W / 49.28202°N 123.11875°W | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | TransLink | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Centre platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |
 Granville
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| Structure type | Subway | ||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | VS | ||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 17, 2009 | ||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 29,383 | ||||||||||||||
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Vancouver City Centre is a SkyTrain station on the Canada Line in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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.
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 and both the Pacific Centre and Vancouver Centre shopping malls. Passengers are able to transfer between Vancouver City Centre station and Granville station (on the Expo Line) during regular retail hours by walking through Pacific Centre or Vancouver Centre and The Bay department store, although the only direct transfer point between the Canada Line and the Expo Line is at Waterfront station.
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