Broadway Subway station platforms begin to take shape
Mount Pleasant Station is increasingly beginning to look like a SkyTrain station.
Recent construction photos newly shared by the Government of British Columbia provide a closer look inside the underground station being built beneath East Broadway between Main Street and Quebec Street, as a part of the Millennium Line’s Broadway extension.
Construction crews are gradually covering the subway station’s exposed concrete shell with its permanent finishes. White ceiling panels and lighting are being installed across the platform level, while workers are also adding large, light-coloured tiles to the walls.
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Much of the ceiling remains open, revealing the extensive network of pipes, ventilation ducts, electrical cables, and other equipment that will eventually be hidden above a ceiling structural framework with finished panels.
Moreover, crews have installed the first yellow-coloured tactile strips along the edge of the platform, which provides blind or low-vision passengers of the dangerous drop near the track edge.
August 2026 construction progress on the platform level of Mount Pleasant Station on the Broadway Subway. (Government of B.C.)
August 2026 construction progress on Mount Pleasant Station on the Broadway Subway. (Government of B.C.)
August 2026 construction progress on the platform level of Mount Pleasant Station on the Broadway Subway. (Government of B.C.)
August 2026 construction progress on Mount Pleasant Station on the Broadway Subway. (Government of B.C.)
Work to rebuild East Broadway outside the station has also progressed considerably. After a lengthy four-month full vehicle closure of East Broadway between Main Street and Quebec Street, two vehicle lanes reopened in mid-May 2026, followed by the reopening of all four vehicle lanes between in late June 2026, although intermittent partial lane closures have continued for final pedestrian sidewalk, paving, and other finishing work.
Mount Pleasant Station’s subway entrance is being built at the southwest corner of the prominent intersection of Main Street and East Broadway.
To varying degrees, construction on all of the stations has progressed to the street-level entrance building structure.
So far, construction on Mount Pleasant Station is most advanced, as it was the first station to see both tunnel boring machines pass through its excavated station pit, enabling crews to begin specific early-stage structural work on the subway station structure before the other stations.
There are some exceptions to South Granville Station, as the shell of its street-level entrance was completed in 2025 by fully integrating it with PCI Developments’ The Stories tower at the northeast corner of the intersection of Granville Street and West Broadway.
The Broadway Subway is a $2.95-billion extension of the Millennium Line running 5.7 kilometres west from VCC-Clark Station to Arbutus Street. It includes about 700 metres of elevated guideway within the False Creek Flats and five kilometres of tunnel, along with six new subway stations.
July 2026 construction progress on Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station on the Broadway Subway. (Government of B.C.)
June 2026 construction progress on Oak-VGH Station on the Broadway Subway. (Government of B.C.)
Construction progress on Oak-VGH Station, as of June 23, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)
Construction progress on Mount Pleasant Station, as of June 23, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)
Future subway station entrance; The Stories tower at SkyTrain’s future South Granville Station, as seen on June 26, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)
Future subway station entrance; The Stories tower at SkyTrain’s future South Granville Station, as seen on June 26, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)
Future subway station entrance; The Stories tower at SkyTrain’s future South Granville Station, as seen on June 26, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)
Future Starbucks and subway station entrance; The Stories tower at SkyTrain’s future South Granville Station, as seen on June 26, 2026. (Kenneth Chan)
Testing of trains, tracks, and operating systems began on the eastern segments of the extension in May 2026. Testing will gradually progress westward as more segments of the extension reaching the new Arbutus Station become ready.
The extension is slated to open in late 2027. Once operating, the travel time between the existing VCC-Clark Station and the Millennium Line’s new western terminus of Arbutus Stations is expected to take about 11 minutes, with trains running every three to four minutes during peak periods. On a one-seat train ride, the travel time will be about 12 minutes between Commercial-Broadway Station and Arbutus Station and about 47 minutes between Lafarge Lake-Douglas Station in Coquitlam City Centre.
SkyTrain Mount Pleasant Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of B.C.)
SkyTrain Mount Pleasant Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of B.C.)
SkyTrain Mount Pleasant Station design concept, April 2021. (Government of B.C.)
Mount Pleasant Station on the SkyTrain Millennium Line Broadway Extension (Broadway Subway). (Government of B.C.)
Mount Pleasant Station on the SkyTrain Millennium Line Broadway Extension (Broadway Subway). (Government of B.C.)
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