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Oakridge-41st Avenue SkyTrain station upgrades to require month-long early closure

November 2025 construction progress on SkyTrain's Oakridge-41st Avenue Station upgrades and the new Oakridge Park mall. (Kenneth Chan)

Late-night passengers who typically use Oakridge-41st Avenue Station on SkyTrain’s Canada Line are being asked for their patience over a month-long period starting on Dec. 14, 2025.

This is to allow a temporary station closure to enable extensive construction work to be safely undertaken for station upgrades.

Train service will continue running through the segment between King Edward Station and Langara-49th Avenue Station, but the trains will not stop at Oakridge-41st Avenue Station from 11 p.m. onwards, requiring an early closure of the station.

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These early closures will occur through Jan. 15, 2026, specifically Sundays to Thursday nights. The station will operate during regular Canada Line hours on Fridays, Saturdays, Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), Christmas Day (Dec. 25), New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31), and New Year’s Day (Jan. 1). The No. 15 Cambie/Olympic Village Station bus can be used as an alternative way to get around the Cambie Street corridor.

Over this period, construction crews will complete the demolition of the 2009-built, original ground-level station entrance canopy structure and install large glass panels on the new replacement roof structure.

This station upgrade is a public benefit triggered by QuadReal Property Group, the developer and owner of the new Oakridge Park (Oakridge Centre) mall. The developer is funding the lion’s share of the station upgrades, while TransLink is providing $2.2 million specifically towards the new escalators.

When construction at the station began in September 2024, it was stated that the work would take about one year to finish. This project is now behind schedule, with TransLink indicating today that the upgrades will reach full completion in Summer 2026. Earlier this fall, QuadReal formally announced that the major mall is now scheduled for an opening in Spring 2026, instead of 2025.

Previous original street-level entrance:

Existing condition of the street-level entrance for SkyTrain Oakridge-41st Avenue Station. (Google Maps)

Future new and expanded street-level entrance:

skytrain oakridge-41st avenue station 2024 design

2024 finalized concept for the expansion of SkyTrain Oakridge-41st Avenue Station. (Henriquez Partners Architects/Quadreal Property Group/Westbank/TransLink)

When complete, Oakridge-41st Avenue Station will boast two additional escalators between the street level and the underground ticketing concourse level. With the retention of the existing up escalator, the station will have a total of three escalators reaching street level, including the introduction of a down escalator direction.

The new roof being installed for the street-level entrance offers an improved aesthetic and expanded weather protection for both the new escalators and a larger area at the plaza.

As well, the station will gain a second entrance — a new direct underground entrance from the new indoor mall. The underground corridor reaching the station will be lined with retail units.

2024 finalized concept for the expansion of SkyTrain Oakridge-41st Avenue Station. (Henriquez Partners Architects/Quadreal Property Group/Westbank/TransLink)

Other components of the station upgrades include an improved eastbound R4 41st Avenue RapidBus stop outside the station entrance — with new information displays, benches, and shelter — and new public art inside the station.

These station upgrades are necessary to better handle future ridership growth driven by not only the immense mixed-use retail, residential, office, and civic uses of Oakridge Park — which is expected to become a regional destination, and with major events held on its nine-acre rooftop public park — but also the significant densification planned in the broader Oakridge area outside the mall property.

In 2018, during a period of rapid public transit ridership growth across Metro Vancouver, Oakridge-41st Avenue Station ridership reached 2.9 million annual boardings, with averages of 8,600 boardings per weekday, 7,300 per Saturday, and 5,800 per Sunday/holiday. At the time, the previous mall — now demolished — was still highly operational, with its businesses largely intact.

In 2024, ridership reached 2.33 million boardings annually, with averages of 7,100 boardings per weekday, 5,400 per Saturday, and 4,300 per Sunday/holiday. This represents a major increase from previous pandemic-time lows, as well as the major impacts to ridership from the mall’s redevelopment. Some of these ridership losses have been offset from the 2020-launched R4 41st Avenue RapidBus, with a significant number of passengers transferring between the station and the bus service, which has quickly grown into become Metro Vancouver’s second busiest bus route — just behind the 99 B-Line.

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