SkyTrain Station Renovations

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Drove past Stadium Station today and only just noticed that the curved vaulted skylights have been replaced with angled and peaked skylights.
Curved awning along the front entrance was also replaced with an angular one.

Google shows old ones January 2022:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2VMyNJNdruGTKnrC6

You can see the smaller angled skylight here

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Drove past Stadium Station today and only just noticed that the curved vaulted skylights have been replaced with angled and peaked skylights.
Curved awning along the front entrance was also replaced with an angular one.

Google shows old ones January 2022:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/2VMyNJNdruGTKnrC6

There's a May 2022 Google streetview on Beatty that shows the work underway. It was all finished by 2023.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/C1W6m6kYHqufH2MM7

[jollyburger]

They did the roof replacement back around 2020

https://www.instagram.com/p/B71-_JYBfuW/?img_index=1



https://www.bird.ca/preview/expo-line-skytrain-roof-replacement

Sept 22 DH when they were moving the Customer Service office



https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-customer-service-centre-waterfront-station-vancouver

[officedweller]

Pics by me today of Stadium Station:

You can see the curved outline of the old skylights on the back wall,
and even the original fence posts on the roof were curved to match the skylights.

By me:


By me:


Old pic from Google (January 2022):


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Costco..._ep=EgoyMDI1MDMyNS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D


By me:


Old pic from Wikipedia:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium%E2%80%93Chinatown_station

[jollyburger]

Completion not happening until possibly 2027

The Gilmore Station Upgrade and Expansion project initiation was deferred due to negotiations with adjacent developers and several changes required at the design phase.

https://www.translink.ca/-/media/transli...h/public-board-meeting-march-26-2025.pdf

Provide additional vertical
circulation, improve customer
amenities, increase retail space
and bring station, as a whole,
up to current standards.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Completion not happening until possibly 2027

https://www.translink.ca/-/media/transli...h/public-board-meeting-march-26-2025.pdf

Maybe there's still hope that the station mezzanine will be connected to Gilmore Place directly.

[MIPS]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Pics by me today of Stadium Station:

You can see the curved outline of the old skylights on the back wall,
and even the original fence posts on the roof were curved to match the skylights.

[lotsa images]

I still think the WorkSafe mandated handrails on the roof and ten foot pedestrian fences along the road are one of the biggest architecture crimes done to the transit system. It's so goddamn ugly.

Also why get rid of the curved skylights for flat? Cost-savings? They have not maintained them for nearly 20 years, much less had them uncovered to allow light through. It made the station incredibly dark and depressing.

[madog222]

I think cost would be a fair assumption as to why they went with flat glazing.

It's not like there has been any intention to maintain the 80s esthetic while stations have been renovated / upgraded.

[officedweller]

I'm not sure if the original curved skylights were glass or plexiglass?
I think they hazed over, suggesting plexiglass.
That could be why they replaced with flat glass (curved glass being too expensive) and maybe there's some reasonable plexiglass couldn't be reinstalled?

[officedweller]

Buzzer post on Brentwood Station renos:
https://buzzer.translink.ca/2025/03/phot...Newsletter+-+April+2025&utm_medium=email

Artwork is siluoettes on the glass - not sure about the sculptures in the glass box.
The artwork shows more commuters walking- a bit odd they'd make it seem more congested with the imagery rather than more calming.

[officedweller]

Oakridge-41st Avenue Station to close early for seven weeks to enable construction

TransLink announced today that Oakridge-41st Avenue Station will close about two hours earlier than usual from Sunday to Thursday nights (excluding Fridays and Saturdays) over seven weeks on two separate periods.

The station will close early at 11 p.m. between Sunday, June 18 and Thursday, June 12, 2025, and between Wednesday, July 2 and Wednesday, August 6, 2025 (excluding Sunday, August 3).

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain...n-early-closure-construction-summer-2025

[officedweller]

SkyTrain's Commercial-Broadway Station escalators fully reopen after replacement work
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-commercial-broadway-station-escalators-fully-reopen

[madog222]

Next up for escalator replacement are both at VCC Clark, one at Lougheed, and for some reason all at Main.

https://portal.us.bn.cloud.ariba.com/discovery/public/rfx/23262425/preview

[officedweller]

Maybe they saved costs at Main during the previous renovations by deferring escalator replacement.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Maybe they saved costs at Main during the previous renovations by deferring escalator replacement.

I wonder why the useful life is so low on those escalators. More usage?

[officedweller]

Come to think of it, the west escalators at Main would be new.
They demolished that mezzanine, so the length of the escalators would be different.
The east escalators could be the old ones.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Come to think of it, the west escalators at Main would be new.
They demolished that mezzanine, so the length of the escalators would be different.
The east escalators could be the old ones.

I think the east escalators got replaced as well.

[officedweller]

Maybe too many syringes caught in the mechanisms.

[madog222]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Come to think of it, the west escalators at Main would be new.
They demolished that mezzanine, so the length of the escalators would be different.
The east escalators could be the old ones.

The RFP says all three are 9 or 10 years old and have a design life of 10 years.

Possibly at the time the current de facto standard “transit grade” were not yet available but on the horizon so Translink decided on cheaper ones.

[WarrenC12]

Design life of 10 years and replacement timeline of 5 years.