Joyce–Collingwood station

Joyce–Collingwood
SkyTrain station
Location	5099 Joyce Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates	49°14′18″N 123°01′54″W / 49.23835°N 123.031704°W / 49.23835; -123.031704Coordinates: 49°14′18″N 123°01′54″W / 49.23835°N 123.031704°W / 49.23835; -123.031704
Owned by	TransLink
Platforms	Centre platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	JY
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	December 11, 1985
Rebuilt	2016–17
Previous names	Joyce (1985–2001)
Traffic
Passengers (2017[1])	13,800
Services
Preceding station   TransLink   Following station 29th Avenue toward Waterfront Expo Line Patterson toward King George or Production Way–University

Joyce–Collingwood (formerly Joyce) is an elevated station on the Expo Line, a part of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located on Joyce Street at Vanness Avenue, in the Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the tenth-busiest station on the SkyTrain system.

History

Joyce–Collingwood is 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 all the way to where the current New Westminster station is located.

The station was opened as Joyce in 1985 along the original Expo Line. It replaced Joyce Loop, located 600 metres south at the intersection of Joyce Street and Kingsway, as the main transfer point to local transit services in the area. Trolley wire were extended to the station in early 1986 to bring trolley buses to the bus loop.^[2]

Formerly an industrial area, the area in the immediate vicinity of this station is being redeveloped as Collingwood Village, a denser community of high-rise condominiums. The "Collingwood" portion of the name was added in 2001 to try to reflect a positive presence imposed by SkyTrain on the surrounding community, as the station had been known to have a particularly negative community impact in terms of contributing to higher rates of crime and violence since its opening.

As part of the Expo Line upgrades, renovations on the station began in early 2016.^[3] Phase one was completed on October 6, 2017; it consisted of new elevators, escalators, and improved station design and integration.^[4] Phase two renovations began in early 2018 and are scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2019.^[3]

Service

• The station connects to a number of TransLink bus routes serving eastern Vancouver, Burnaby, and North Vancouver.
• The station will be one of the termini for the proposed 91 B-Line service, which will replace the current 43 express route that runs west from this station to the University of British Columbia.^[5]
• There is currently no scheduled trolley bus service to the station after the dieselization of the 41 trolley route on August 31, 2000. However, trolley buses may still be seen in the bus loop during the occasional unscheduled reroutes of trolley route 19.

Station information

Entrances

Escalators at the east station house

• West entrance : located on the west side of Joyce Street, in the centre of the bus loop. The entrance is fully accessible with an elevator and an up escalator.
• East entrance : located on the east side of Joyce Street, on the opposite side of the bus loop. The entrance is also fully accessible, including up and down escalators, an elevator, and a staircase. This entrance serves the passenger drop-off area.

References

External links

Media related to Joyce-Collingwood Station at Wikimedia Commons