First look at Broadway-City Hall Station's Canada Line-Millennium Line interchange | Daily Hive

First look inside Broadway-City Hall's future Canada Line-Millennium Line interchange

These escalators will connect the Canada Line southbound platform with the Millennium Line platforms, with the breakthrough location into the Canada Line southbound platform located at the top of these escalators on the left; construction progress on the new interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station, as seen on July 30, 2026. (Government of B.C.)

Imagine Commercial-Broadway Station, where the Expo Line and Millennium Line meet to create one of the SkyTrain network’s most important and busiest transfer points — except with the entire interchange buried underground.

That is essentially what Broadway-City Hall Station is becoming, as a network of new pedestrian passageways, escalators, staircases, and elevators takes shape beneath one of Vancouver’s busiest arterial roads to connect the existing Canada Line with the Millennium Line’s new Broadway extension.

Recent construction photos provided to Daily Hive Urbanized by the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Transit show one of the clearest looks yet inside the latest progress on the major expansion of Broadway-City Hall Station, which will become the transfer point between the Canada Line and the Millennium Line when the subway project reaches completion and opens in late 2027.

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The project is substantially transforming the existing Canada Line station at the intersection of West Broadway and Cambie Street, with new connections being carved through its concrete walls at the street and platform levels, and a much larger station complex built around and deep beneath it.

Unlike transferring between the Canada Line and the 99 B-Line bus service today, passengers travelling between the Canada Line and the new Millennium Line extension will be able to make the entire transfer underground and within the fare paid zone.

The station’s evolution and expansion into an interchange will have four separate connections to the existing Canada Line station, along with five additional elevators and 12 additional escalators. The existing Canada Line platforms are also being extended by 10 metres — from approximately 40 metres to 50 metres — by knocking out false walls at the north end of the platforms that concealed void spaces to preserve a future lengthening.

Some of the latest work is occurring immediately next to the existing Broadway-City Hall Station entrance at the southeast corner of the intersection of West Broadway and Cambie Street.

Crews are constructing changes along the east side of the existing street-level entrance building, including three future openings. One opening closest to the entrance will lead passengers to elevators connecting directly with the Millennium Line platforms far below, while another opening will become a window just outside the station’s fare gates. Further down the street-level entrance corridor, another opening through the existing east wall will lead to two escalators and a staircase to provide a major vertical circulation point to reach not only the Millennium Line platforms but also the Canada Line’s northbound platform.

Crews are building new walls on the east side of Broadway-City Hall Station’s street-level entrance, where there will be connections into the station at this location for elevators to the Millennium Line platforms; construction progress on the new interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station, as seen on July 30, 2026. (Government of B.C.)

Crews are building new walls on the east side of Broadway-City Hall Station’s street-level entrance, with two breakthrough locations clearly visible, including an opening on the left for where passengers will access elevators to the Millennium Line platform and an opening on the right for a window located just outside of the fare gates; construction progress on the new interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station, as seen on July 30, 2026. (Government of B.C.)

On the Canada Line’s northbound platform (to Downtown Vancouver), the east wall next to the bottom of the existing escalator and staircase will be opened up to create a direct pathway to access the new escalators, staircase, and elevators for reaching the Millennium Line platforms below and the existing street-level entrance above.

West of the Canada Line’s southbound platform (to Richmond City Centre and Vancouver International Airport), behind the existing wall, crews are installing a new bank of escalators, a staircase, and elevator that will take passengers down below the level of the existing Canada Line platforms to reach the Millennium Line platforms.

From there, the new underpass pathway goes underneath the Canada Line tunnel and will connect passengers with the Millennium Line portion of Broadway-City Hall Station.

Recent photos show the tunnel in its unfinished state, with exposed concrete walls and ceilings and extensive mechanical and electrical infrastructure being installed overhead.

This pedestrian tunnel passes underneath the Canada Line tracks and connects the Canada Line’s southbound platform to the future Millennium Line platforms; construction progress on the new interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station, as seen on May 15, 2026. (Government of B.C.)

The right side shows where breakthrough to the outbound platform will occur, with the new escalators covered by green tarps in the foreground; construction progress on the new interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station, as seen on July 30, 2026. (Government of B.C.)

These multiple routes are intended to distribute large numbers of passengers circulating through the interchange rather than funnel everyone through a single pathway. It is estimated that roughly 75 per cent of passengers using Broadway-City Hall Station will use these underground pathways to transfer between the Canada Line and Millennium Line.

Building the interchange has been particularly complicated because the new east-west Millennium Line tunnels have to pass underneath the north-south Canada Line tunnel.

To overcome the shallow Canada Line tunnel beneath Cambie Street, the Millennium Line’s Broadway-City Hall Station is the deepest of the project’s six new subway stations, reaching 22 metres underground.

When complete, the interchange will effectively create a major new crossroads for Metro Vancouver’s SkyTrain network, providing a direct connection between the Canada Line’s north-south corridor and the Millennium Line’s east-west route to Arbutus Street.

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Diagram showing the interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station. (Government of B.C.)

Diagram showing the interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station. (Government of B.C.)

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Millennium Line extension’s Broadway-City Hall Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of B.C.)

Overnight, upon the opening of the Millennium Line extension, Broadway-City Hall Station will become one of the SkyTrain network’s busiest stations.

Once open, there will be a transfer-free, one-seat train ride between Lafarge Lake-Douglas Station in Coquitlam City Centre and Arbutus Station in Kitsilano, with a travel time of roughly 47 minutes.

Travel times will also be just 12 minutes between Commercial-Broadway Station and Arbutus Station, and 11 minutes between VCC-Clark Station and Arbutus Station.

Travel times between Commercial-Broadway Station and Broadway-City Hall Station will be roughly six minutes.

In contrast, during peak periods, the 99 B-Line bus route can take up to 35 minutes to travel between Commercial-Broadway Station and Arbutus Street, including up to 20 minutes for the segment between Commercial-Broadway Station and Broadway-City Hall Station. The 99 B-Line segment between Commercial-Broadway Station and Arbutus Street will be discontinued; the 99 B-Line service will be truncated between Arbutus Station and UBC exchange.

The $2.95-billion Broadway Subway project is extending the Millennium Line by 5.7 km from VCC-Clark Station to Arbutus Street, including six subway stations, five km of new underground segments, and 700 metres of new elevated guideway within the False Creek Flats. Dynamic testing of SkyTrain vehicles on completed portions of the Millennium Line extension tracks began earlier this year.

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Work preparing for the breakthrough of the wall for the Canada Line northbound platform; construction progress on the new interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station, as seen in May 2026. (Government of B.C.)

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Platform extension construction for the Canada Line’s Broadway-City Hall Station, part of the Broadway Subway project, as seen on May 21, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)

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Ventilation fans; construction progress on the new interchange between the Millennium Line extension and Canada Line at Broadway-City Hall Station. (Government of B.C.)

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