This year, we are focused on building the six new underground stations, completing tunnel boring operations including dismantling the TBMs, and beginning to install the SkyTrain tracks. We provide ongoing updates about construction in advance to email subscribers, through alerts to traffic news outlets, social media posts and here on our website. Please see notifications below and contact us if you have specific questions about what’s happening currently on and near Broadway. Register to receive construction notices for specific station areas and general updates here.
You can access businesses, services and residences on Broadway throughout construction. Visit our maps page to see an interactive map and other resources, such as parking and access maps for the station areas along the Broadway corridor which provide alternative travel and parking options for people visiting Broadway businesses, services or residences.
Raise the Roof! First Roof Sections Installed at New Stations
Anatomy of a Station – How the BSP Stations Are Built
Going Up – First Escalators Installed at South Granville Station
TBM Disassembly Complete
Construction Forecast
Summer Scenes on Broadway
Worker Spotlight
Night work for piezometer, geotechnical, and CCTV inspections between future station locations continues in 2024 (click to view detailed notice)
BSPC continues to monitor ground and water conditions as well as utilities across the alignment
Geotechnical, piezometer and closed-circuit TV (CCTV) readings will be taken overnight throughout 2024
Temporary single-lane closures of up to one hour for CCTV monitoring locations with reduced speeds and detours around the work as required
For geotechnical monitoring device and piezometer readings, there will be short-term traffic lane shifts (about 15-minutes in duration) at the test locations
A traffic truck with direction lights will indicate the lane shift, while crews take the geotechnical or piezometer readings
We are maintaining four lanes of traffic in station areas on Broadway during weekday peak periods, with lane closures planned primarily in off peak times.
Between station areas, six lanes of traffic are open during rush hour, with on-street parking in some locations in off-peak times.
Off peak times include: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays and weekends.
Please expect temporary lane closures for deliveries, crane movement of materials into the station areas and work on the traffic deck.
Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station
Great Northern Way-Emily Carr hours of work: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Regular night work.
Elevated guideway typical hours of work: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Intermittent night work.
Crews are building the new station, including concrete and rebar activities with increased deliveries of supplies.
Track installation is ongoing on the elevated guideway.
Throughout 2024, work will continue to focus on constructing the underground station and station entrance building. This includes regular concrete pours for the walls, columns, concourse levels and roof sections. There is also work happening in the tunnels to prepare for track installation.
Regular hours of work are Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. There may be occasional work on weekends or holidays.
Occasional overnight work from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Mount Pleasant Station
Typical hours of work: 6 a.m. until 10 p.m.
Crews are building the new station, including concrete and rebar activities with increased deliveries of supplies.
Deliveries to site require intermittent closures of less than 30 minutes in the southbound curb lane on Main Street between E. Broadway and E. 10th Avenue.
Throughout 2024, work will continue to focus on constructing the underground station. This includes regular concrete pours for the walls, columns and concourse levels.
There is also work happening in the tunnels to prepare for track installation.
Regular hours of work are Monday to Saturday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. There may be occasional work on Sundays or holidays.
Occasional overnight work from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Broadway-City Hall Station
Typical hours of work: 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. Regular night work.
Crews are building the new station, including concrete and rebar activities with increased deliveries of supplies.
Excavation: includes intermittent rock breaking, securing wall support, and trucking activities to remove material.
Lane reductions on Cambie Street due to construction of the Canada Line/Millennium Line underground connections.
Work on Cambie Street east sidewalk between Broadway and 10th Avenue to complete Canada Line/Millennium Line underground connections. Day and night work with intermittent pedestrian detours after 8pm.
Broadway-City Hall Station construction continues through the fall – includes intermittent night work (click to view detailed notice)
Work is focused on constructing the walls, columns, floors and roof of the underground station.
Crews are also working along Cambie Street from W. Broadway to W. 10th Avenue to connect the future Millennium Line extension to the existing Canada Line station.
Regular work hours are Monday to Saturday from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. There may be occasional work on Sundays and holidays.
Some elevated noise during specific activities.
Oak VGH Station
Typical hours of work: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Intermittent night work.
Crews are building the new station, including concrete and rebar activities with increased deliveries of supplies.
Underground construction progresses at the future OAK-VGH Station through the summer – includes intermittent night work – (click here to view detailed notice)
Ongoing site activities include rebar installation, delivery of materials and equipment, utilities maintenance, road and sidewalk repairs, and regular concrete pours.
Temporary traffic changes and increased trucking activity related to the delivery of materials.
Regular work hours are from Monday to Saturday from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. There may be occasional work on Sunday and holidays.
When overnight work is required, work hours can range from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. We will continue to provide updates as work progresses.
Work on July 18 involves the first major concrete pour for the station foundation.
Approximately 110 trucks will pour more than 1,000 cubic meters of concrete during the day, with additional pours over the coming months.
For each major pour, set up on site will begin around 5:00 a.m., with the first concrete trucks arriving at 6 a.m. The concrete pour is scheduled until 10 p.m. with low noise work continuing overnight to finish related activities.
South Granville Station
Typical hours of work: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Intermittent night work.
Crews are building the new station, including concrete and rebar activities with increased deliveries of supplies.
Construction of the future South Granville Station continues this summer – includes intermittent night work – (click to view detailed notice)
Crews are installing rebar and waterproofing, delivering materials and equipment, maintaining utilities, welding, and conducting regular concrete pours.
Temporary traffic changes and increased trucking activity related to the delivery of materials.
Regular work hours are from Monday to Saturday from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. There may be occasional work on Sunday and holidays.
When overnight work is required, work hours can range from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. We will continue to provide updates as work progresses.
Crews will complete the first major concrete pour for the station’s foundation. Approximately 130 trucks will pour more than 1,000 cubic meters of concrete during the day, with additional pours of varying volumes over the coming months.
Some elevated noise related to trucking. Concrete trucks are required to have their engines running at all times to keep their drums turning, and to use traditional back-up alarms for crew safety.
Traffic changes include:
Broadway between Granville and Hemlock streets will be reduced to one lane in each direction.
Westbound left turns will be restricted from W. Broadway onto Granville and Hemlock streets.
Eastbound left turns from W. Broadway onto Hemlock Street will also be restricted.
Drivers travelling westbound on W. Broadway wishing to turn south are advised to use Fir Street.
Access to residences, businesses, and parkades will be maintained during all work activities.
Arbutus Station
Typical hours of work: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Regular night work.
Crews are building the new station, including concrete and rebar activities with increased deliveries of supplies.
Cypress Street north of W. Broadway temporarily closed to vehicles for TBM disassembly. Maple Street is reopened during this time. An Arbutus Greenway detour via Maple Street is in effect.
Crews are disassembling the TBMs and removing the components at Cypress Street.
W. Broadway intermittently reduced to one lane in each direction for material deliveries, TBM disassembly and concrete work.
Overnight geotechnical work on W. Broadway between Arbutus and Vine streets on September 4-6 – (click to view detailed notice)
The excavation of both tail track tunnels is ongoing and crews will be performing geotechnical work overnight on W. Broadway between Arbutus and Vine streets to confirm soil conditions.
There will be one lane in each direction on W. Broadway between Arbutus and Burrard Street at all times.
Left turns from W. Broadway onto Cypress Street and from W. Broadway westbound onto Maple Street will be allowed at all times.
Maple Street north of W. Broadway will be closed to vehicles and cyclists.
Cypress Street north of W. Broadway will be reopened to vehicles and cyclists to facilitate north-south access to the neighbourhood and businesses on the north side of W. Broadway.
Cyclists are encouraged to use the Arbutus Greenway detour via Cypress Street, W. 7th Avenue and W. 10th Avenue.
On Friday, June 28, the first roof concrete pour will take place on W. Broadway, between Cypress and Maple streets.
Over the coming months, there will be concrete pours of varying volumes. For the subsequent major pours, set up will begin as early as 5 a.m. and continue until 10 p.m.
Expect elevated noise related to trucking. Concrete trucks are required to have their engines running at all times to keep their drums turning, and to use traditional back-up alarms for crew safety.
Broadway will be reduced to one lane in each direction during the work and traffic control personnel will help manage traffic during all work.
Low noise work continuing overnight to finish related activities.
Beginning March 14, 2022 tractor semi-trailer-type trucks WILL NOT be able to make left hand turns from eastbound and westbound W. Broadway onto Arbutus St.
This latest restriction is in addition to not being able to make right or left hand turns onto W. Broadway from northbound Arbutus St., in effect since December 19, 2021.
Access is available via Oak St., Mackenzie/Macdonald streets, or Dunbar St.
Please see the truck access route map in the detailed notice, which includes signage identifying trucks that will be subject to the turning restrictions.
Tunnels
Hours of work: up to 24/7 for work inside tunnels
Crews are building the concrete track base and installing safety and communications systems to complete tunnel fit out.
