Platforms 3 & 4: Expo Line
Platforms 1 and 2 at Commercial - Broadway are strangely the new platforms on the Millennium Line itself. It would make sense if the newer platforms had the higher numbers. Until the opening of the Evergreen Station in 2016 this station was the strange station where Millennium Line trains could be transferred to both on their own newer line and when they ran along the Expo Line to reach the Waterfront since it was the junction point of the large loop these trains made. No actual track connections are available between the two Linear Induction Motor SkyTrain Lines (the Canada Line is technologically incompatable with the two new lines) at this location.
The stop, with just a single island platform for the two track line, is located below-grade alongside the railroad line used by VIA's Canadian, Amtrak Cascades and the Rocky Mountaineer. The platform is canopied for its entire length with a canopy that has wooden accents and round concrete pillars. Two escalators on the same shaft, a staircase and an elevator lead up to a mezzanine area that connect to a bridge across the mainline railway tracks across to the main Millennium Line Station lobby located at street level at the NE corner of Broadway and Commercial Drive. From this area two escalators, a staircase and an elevator lead up to a bridge across Broadway that is between the Expo Line tracks and leads straight to the end of its island platform for transfers.
Photos 1 & 2: October 6, 2024; 3-18: October 7, 2024; 19-23: October 13, 2022
Passing the Commercial/Broadway Station that almost looks like a building from the observation platform of the Rocky Mountaineer
View of the overpass to the Millennium Line Station and SkyTrain ROWs passing overhead
Entrance to the Millennium Station at Commercial - Broadway
The Austin Road exit and Shopping Centre
Sign for the Commercial - Broadway Millennium Line station for the VCC-Clark Station and the Mill
The main station entrance with a fence announcing improvements
Entrance to the Fare Paid Zone to the Millennium Line platforms
Sign - in a different format - for up to Platforms 3 and 4 Vancouver/Surrey or the two exits to Broadway or Commercial Drive
Signs for both Millennium Line platforms (Columbia is listed as the destination although trains continue to Waterfront
A Commercial - Broadway Platform 2 sign
A commercial - Broadway sign by a platform staircase
The wall along the platform
A floor plan map of the Commercial - Broadway Station showing the two platform areas
Looking down the island platform at Commercial - Broadway
The emergency exit at one end of the platform
Looking down the platform as a train on the Expo Line passes overhead
Heading up the escalators to the mezzanine
Looking past the staircase up from the platform after using the escalator
At the top of escalator from the bridge from the new Expo Line side platform down, down, down to the Millennium Line
Exit or the Millennium Line?
Last Updated: 1 December, 2011
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