{{Short description|Metro Vancouver SkyTrain station}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox station | name = Production Way–University | symbol_location = vancouver | symbol = expo | symbol2 = millennium | type = SkyTrain station | style = TransLink (BC)|style2=SkyTrain | image = Production Way–University station platform.jpg | image_caption = Platform level at Production Way–University | address = 3298 Production Way, Burnaby | coordinates = {{Coord|49.25337|N|122.91815|W|region:CA-BC_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}} | line = <!-- line information is detailed under "services" --> | other = | structure = Elevated | platform = Centre platform| | depth = | levels = | tracks = 2 | parking = 220 | bicycle = | baggage_check = | architect = Hotson Bakker Architects | opened = August 31, 2002 | closed = | rebuilt = | electrified = | accessible = yes | code = PW | owned = TransLink | zone = 2 | smartcardname = | smartcardstatus = | former = | passengers = {{formatnum:{{TransLink (BC) ridership|Production Way}}}} | pass_year = {{TransLink (BC) ridership|year}} | pass_rank = {{TransLink (BC) rank|Production Way}} | pass_percent = {{TransLink (BC) ridership/percent|Production Way}} | pass_system = | mpassengers = | services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=TransLink (BC) |line1=Expo|type1=Lougheed|left1=Lougheed Town Centre|to-left1=Waterfront via Columbia |line2=Millennium|left2=Lake City Way|right2=Lougheed Town Centre }} | map_locator = }} thumb|Production Way entrance thumb|Bus exchange entrance '''Production Way–University''' is an elevated station on the Expo and Millennium Lines of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located at the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Production Way in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Initially a Millennium Line station, a reorganization of SkyTrain service patterns in 2016 made Production Way–University a terminus for a branch of the Expo Line.
==History== Production Way–University station was opened in 2002 as part of the original Millennium Line project. The station was designed by the architecture firm Hotson Bakker Architects.<ref>{{cite web |last=Taggart |first=Jim |url=https://www.canadianarchitect.com/features/vancouver-s-millennium-line/ |title=Vancouver's Millennium Line |work=Canadian Architect |date=July 1, 2001 |access-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331192810/https://www.canadianarchitect.com/features/vancouver-s-millennium-line/ |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2016, SkyTrain service was reconfigured in anticipation of the opening of the Evergreen Extension; as a result, Production Way–University station became a terminus station of an Expo Line branch running between this station and Waterfront station in Downtown Vancouver. At the same time, the Millennium Line service was altered with trains running between VCC–Clark and Lougheed Town Centre stations{{Snd}}later extended to Lafarge Lake–Douglas station when service began on the Evergreen Extension{{Snd}}instead of the previous service between VCC–Clark and Waterfront stations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://buzzer.translink.ca/2016/09/everything-evergreen-new-skytrain-operating-pattern-for-expo-and-millennium-lines/ |title=Everything Evergreen: New SkyTrain operating pattern for Expo and Millennium Lines |date=September 19, 2016 |last=Coling |first=Adrienne |work=The Buzzer Blog |publisher=TransLink |access-date=November 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005155327/http://buzzer.translink.ca/2016/09/everything-evergreen-new-skytrain-operating-pattern-for-expo-and-millennium-lines/ |archive-date=October 5, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Services== Production Way–University station is a major transfer point for Simon Fraser University, as well as providing connections to local suburban buses. It is the terminus of the 145 bus route running to SFU, which carries just over half of all bus traffic to the university. The station's commercial spaces include a convenience store and several restaurants.{{cn|date=January 2023}} The station also has a 220-space parking lot.{{cn|date=January 2023}}
===Proposed gondola=== The SFU Community Trust has proposed extending the TransLink system from this station through the installation of a tri-cable gondola lift that would travel up Burnaby Mountain to the SFU Transit Exchange. The proposed lift would use a 30-passenger Doppelmayr Garaventa 3S Gondola, the same model as the Whistler Blackcomb Peak 2 Peak Gondola. The Trust has proposed the gondola because it felt the system is not weather-dependent like buses, cheaper to maintain, and more environmentally friendly. The provincial government commissioned a feasibility study for the proposal,<ref name="SFUGondola01">{{cite web|url=https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/news/story_02190920.shtml|title=Gondola aired|date=February 19, 2009|publisher=Simon Fraser University|access-date=August 20, 2009}}</ref> but in 2012, a business case concluded that building and operating a gondola would cost $12 million more compared to continuing to serve the SFU campus by bus. Therefore, the construction of a gondola was shelved.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/burnaby-mtn-gondola-shelved-by-translink-1.1182311|title=Burnaby Mtn. gondola shelved by TransLink|date=January 11, 2012|website=CBC News|access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref> In December 2018, Kevin Desmond, TransLink's CEO, indicated that while a gondola to SFU had been added to the second phase of the TransLink 10-Year Investment Plan in 2018, its construction hinged on funding from senior levels of government.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-kevin-desmond-sfu-burnaby-mountain-gondola|title=Planned SFU gondola needs funding, says TransLink CEO|last=Chan|first=Kenneth|date=December 31, 2018|website=Daily Hive|access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref>
==Station information== As there is no crossover at the station itself, terminating Expo Line trains proceed to a crossover located {{convert|650|m}} west of the station to reverse.
===Entrances=== The main point of entry to Production Way–University station is located on the western side of the stationhouse at the northeast corner of Production Way and Lougheed Highway. A secondary entrance is located adjacent to the stations bus exchange.<ref>{{cite map|author=TransLink|title=Production Way–University Station Entrance Locations|url=https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/schedules_and_maps/entrance_maps/Production-Way_University_Station_Elevator_Map.pdf?la=en&hash=B7655E3DC2EDC6A8F29471174F61B176BAB18B09|access-date=March 31, 2019}}</ref>
===Transit connections=== {{See also|List of bus routes in Metro Vancouver}} Bays 1 to 3 are located inside the loop while bay 4 is located on Lougheed Highway, westbound.
{| class="wikitable" |- !Bay !Route number !Destination |- |1 |145 |SFU<br />{{small|Loading only}} |- | rowspan="3" | 2 |110 |Metrotown Station |- |136 |Lougheed Station |- |N9 |Coquitlam Station<br />{{small|NightBus}} |- | rowspan="2" | 3 |110 |Lougheed Station |- |136 |Brentwood Station |- | rowspan="2" | 4 |145 |Production Way Station<br />{{small|Unloading only}} |- |N9 |Downtown<br />{{small|NightBus}} |}
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