Commercial–Broadway station
Commercial–Broadway (formerly two separate stations, Broadway and Commercial Drive) is a rapid transit station complex in Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain system in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It serves an elevated portion of the Expo Line and a below-grade portion of the Millennium Line. It is a major transit hub, with the third-highest number of boardings of any SkyTrain station, and a terminus of the region's busiest bus route, the 99 B-Line. The station was formed by the merging on the previously separate Broadway and Commercial Drive stations in 2009. In February 2019 , a third platform was opened in the Broadway segment of the station to increase capacity for Waterfront station–bound Expo Line service in anticipation of increased station traffic resulting from various initiatives, including the opening of the Evergreen extension on the Millennium Line. Location. Commercial–Broadway station is located just east of the intersection of East Broadway and Commercial Drive in East Vancouver, on the outskirts of Vancouver's Little Italy district. The Expo Line platform is elevated over East Broadway, while the Millennium Line platform is located below street level within the Grandview Cut south of Grandview Highway North . The two sections are connected via a pedestrian overpass that crosses East Broadway. History. Commercial–Broadway station is a merger of two existing stations: Broadway station on the Expo Line and Commercial Drive station on the Millennium Line. Broadway station was built in 1985 on the original Expo Line. It has been one of the system's busiest stations and in 2002 became a transfer point to the Millennium Line via the connected Commercial Drive station. Commercial Drive station was built in 2002 as the temporary terminus of the first segment of the Millennium Line, with connections to the Expo  Line's Broadway station. The Millennium Line has since been extended westward, and out of the Grandview Cut, by , to terminate at VCC–Clark station. In November 2008, renovations began on Broadway station, including the addition of a new entrance on the south side of the station from 10th Avenue, the replacement and relocation of the station's elevator, and the refitting of the original metal mesh paneling on the ground level with glass. These upgrades were completed in October 2009. Both stations were formally merged and renamed on September 7, 2009, due to concern over potential confusion with Broadway –City Hall station of the then-new Canada Line. Commercial Drive became platforms 1 and 2 of the new station, while Broadway became platforms 3 and 4. Between August 31, 2002, and October 22, 2016, the station was one of only four in the world where the same metro line (in this case, the Millennium Line) ran through a station twice in a pretzel configuration, the others being the Serdika and Serdika II stations on the Sofia Metro in Sofia, Bulgaria; the Monument Metro station on the Tyne and Wear Metro in Newcastle upon Tyne, England; and Voorweg RandstadRail station  on the Randstadrail in The Hague, Netherlands. Upgrades. In conjunction with the Evergreen Extension project, major upgrades at the station began in the second quarter of 2015 to accommodate increased passenger volumes and enhance the passenger environment. Originally scheduled to be completed by mid-2017, these upgrades were completed and opened to the public on February 2, 2019. The upgrades include: Station information. Transit connections. Bus routes: