The makeover is complete! We’ve finished the upgrades to Brentwood Town Centre Station, which began in 2022, to improve the station’s accessibility and capacity, as well as customer flow.

What’s new

A new street-level elevator

Two new escalators and an expanded mezzanine

Three new fare gates

This improves the flow of customers entering and exiting the station.

Two enhanced stairwells with enclosed glass to provide weather protection

Public art

Improved lighting

These upgrades meet the transit needs of the growing Brentwood neighbourhood. Brentwood Town Centre Station is one of the busiest Millennium Line stations, serving 23,000 residents and 15,000 workers, with more coming as 9,000 new homes get built over several years.

Brentwood Town Centre Station is also a transfer point for seven bus routes connecting UBC, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Burnaby, North Vancouver, and downtown Vancouver.

The 25 Brentwood Stn / UBC route is one of those routes, and it’s the fifth bus route with the highest ridership in 2023, with 6.6 million boardings.

Public art: “Intimate Design”

Aside from functional upgrades, the station also displays new art titled, Intimate Distance, designed by Vancouver-based artist Jill Anholt.

You might want to step back to see the full picture! So, what’s cool about it?

If you view it from inside the station, on the mezzanine level, you’ll see how perfectly the Burnaby cityscape lines up with the art — like it’s part of it!

Intimate Distance captures the different ways we perceive near and far objects, and one another, while in motion on public transit.

The integrated glazing artwork is created from photographs of Metro Vancouver commuters taken over a series of days and times in busy places throughout the region. Then it’s abstracted into a dynamic composition of colourful tapered lines and reflections that capture the ephemeral blurs of past travellers in motion.

When you step back and watch people pass by the art, it’s like the past travellers (in the art) and present travellers (people passing by) are together.

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