Olympic Village station

Template:Future infrastructure Olympic Village Station is a station currently under construction on the rapid transit Canada Line in Vancouver, Canada. The station is due to open when the Canada Line opens in 2009. The use of the term "Olympic" is pending a licensing agreement with the International Olympic Committee.^[1]

Location

The station is being built underground at the intersection of Cambie Street and West 2nd Avenue, adjacent to the Cambie Bridge. It will serve the existing South False Creek residential and commercial area, as well as the future Olympic Athletes' Village for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Services

The station will be within walking distance of Leg-In-Boot Station on the Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway, a tram service which connects Science World and the Main Street-Science World SkyTrain station to Granville Island. If the City converts the Downtown Historic Railway to a full streetcar line, there would be a stop at Olympic Village Station.

The 84 express bus will link this station to UBC and VCC-Clark Station.

History

During the planning and approval process for the Canada Line, this station was originally intended for completion for 2009. When the cost of the project had to be scaled back by TransLink (circa 2005), the station was deferred until after the opening of the line in 2009. However, the City of Vancouver owns the station site and decided to fund the station's construction to spur redevelopment of its lands and the neighbouring Southeast False Creek neighbourhood, and it was restored to the initial phase. "Olympic Village" is the third name for this station; it was initially proposed as "2nd Avenue", and more recently as "False Creek South".