22nd Street station (SkyTrain)


22nd Street is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. It is located on 7th Avenue and 22nd Street in the Connaught Heights neighbourhood of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Due to its proximity to the Queensborough interchange, where the Queensborough Bridge meets with Stewardson and Marine Ways, the station serves as a hub for regional bus routes.

History

22nd Street station was opened in 1985 as part of the original SkyTrain system. The Austrian architecture firm Architektengruppe U-Bahn was responsible for designing the station.
In 2002, Millennium Line service was introduced to the station, which provided outbound service to VCC–Clark station via Columbia station in New Westminster. This service was discontinued and replaced with an Expo Line branch to Production Way–University station in 2016.
In February 2019, upgrades began on the station's bus exchange, which included adding enhanced lighting and a larger waiting area to reduce overcrowding. In April 2019, TransLink installed its first-ever charging station for its future fleet of battery electric buses at the station's bus exchange. Construction on the $2.8-million upgrade was completed in July 2019.

Services

Station layout

Entrances

22nd Street station is served by a single entrance facing west. The entrance, along with the bus loop that surrounds the stationhouse, is at a level slightly below 7th Avenue and is connected to the street by a ramp and stairs. An up escalator is provided for the westbound platform only; passengers accessing the eastbound platform must climb up a full flight of stairs.

Transit connections

22nd Street station offers an off-street transit exchange with on-street stops for HandyDart and bus drop-offs eastbound on 7th Avenue. Bus bay assignment is as follows:
BayRoutes
1418 Kingswood
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3104 Annacis Island
4410 Brighouse Station
5101 Lougheed Station
6100 Marpole Loop
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