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East Broadway at Main Street to fully close starting late January for four months for subway construction

View of the one block of East Broadway west of Main Street that will be fully closed to vehicle traffic for four months starting in late January 2026. (Google Maps)

Expect longer east-west travel times through Vancouver’s Central Broadway area. Highly disruptive, full road closures on East Broadway at Main Street are set to begin in late January 2026 and will continue around the clock for approximately four months.

In October 2025, the provincial government announced that the busy one-block stretch of East Broadway between Main Street and Quebec Street would be closed to all vehicles for four months. The closure is required to allow construction crews to remove the temporary four-lane road deck bridge spanning the block, which was completed in April 2022 to accommodate the underground construction of Mount Pleasant Station for the Broadway extension of SkyTrain’s Millennium Line. At the time, a specific closure start date was not provided — but one has now been announced.

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Today, in a bulletin, the provincial government confirmed a firm start date for this prolonged full road closure — beginning at 7 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026.

Over this period, TransLink’s 99 B-Line, No. 9 Boundary/UBC, and N9 NightBus buses will detour one block north, using East 8th Avenue. A temporary traffic signal will be in place at the intersection of Main Street and East 8th Avenue to facilitate improved bus movements through traffic signal priority, and there will also be new bus queue jumpers and dual turn lanes. Vehicles will return to East Broadway via Quebec Street.

General vehicle traffic is expected to detour through other east-west arterial routes on 12th Avenue and 2nd Avenue. The adjacent streets, including East 8th Avenue and Quebec Street, will remain open to all drivers to retain local access to businesses and residences.

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Traffic impacts and detour routes for the four-month full closure of Broadway between Main and Quebec streets to enable the removal of the temporary traffic deck above the Mount Pleasant Station construction site. (Government of BC)

During the full closure to vehicles, the pedestrian sidewalks will remain open at all times to retain access to businesses and residences.

After four months, roughly late Spring 2026, vehicle traffic will return to this block of East Broadway, with one vehicle lane in each direction while work on rebuilding the remaining two lanes continues.

In Summer 2026, this block of East Broadway will see the completion of the remaining two vehicle lanes, as part of the new permanent design of rebuilding all of Broadway’s subway station construction blocks to a configuration of four vehicle lanes — two lanes in each direction — with widened pedestrian sidewalks into the street’s pre-construction curbside lanes. This street design was approved by the City of Vancouver under the Broadway Plan.

Also this summer, the south sidewalk will finally be reconnected to Main Street.

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View of the temporary traffic deck bridge; Fall 2025 construction progress on Mount Pleasant Station at the intersection of East Broadway and Main Street. (Government of BC)

Process to remove the temporary traffic decks for the Broadway Subway’s station construction sites. (Government of BC)

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New permanent road design for Broadway between Main and Quebec streets, above Mount Pleasant Station. (Government of BC)

Businesses in the area that have struggled for years during the project’s major construction work have been dreading this forthcoming prolonged closure ever since it was first announced last fall.

In December 2025, to help mitigate the impacts, Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Association (MPBIA) urged the provincial government to provide businesses with emergency financial relief, and the municipal government to relax curbside vehicle parking restrictions in the general area. Without meaningful relief, MPBIA asserts the forthcoming construction disruptions could be the final straw for many of the area’s businesses.

During a town hall for businesses organized by MPBIA last month, some business owners shared they sold their homes to keep their doors open, while other owners are now working second jobs to cover rent and payroll.

“All you need to do is walk the Broadway corridor to see the number of vacant buildings, papered up windows and for lease signs to see the impact. The next shutdown threatens to accelerate these losses even further,” reads an open letter by MPBIA executive director Neil Wyles, adding that “these are real people running out of time, money, and options.”

The provincial government has yet to decide how the remaining temporary traffic deck bridges at the Broadway-City Hall, Oak-VGH, South Granville, and Arbutus subway station construction block sites will be removed, with similar full road closures not ruled out. These traffic decks were installed to keep arterial vehicle traffic flowing for years while crews excavated below to build the stations. Their removal starting this year signals the project’s final stages, as the roofs of the underground structures near completion and roadway restoration begins.

Construction on the Millennium Line’s Broadway extension first began in Spring 2021 and it is set to reach completion and open in Fall 2027.

Map of the Broadway subway’s station blocks for road reconstruction. (City of Vancouver)

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