SkyTrain station | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | 655 Seymour Street, Vancouver | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 49°16′58″N 123°07′00″W / 49.282750°N 123.116639°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | TransLink | ||||||||||
Platforms | Split platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | Vancouver City Centre | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Subway | ||||||||||
Depth | 25 metres (82 ft) | ||||||||||
Platform levels | 2 | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
Architect | Architektengruppe U-Bahn | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | GV | ||||||||||
Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | December 11, 1985 | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2006 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2023[1] | 5,856,400 21.7% | ||||||||||
Rank | 4 of 53 | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Granville is an underground station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in Downtown Vancouver on the portion of Granville Street that is known as the Granville Mall. The station is accessible from the surface via entrances on Granville Street and Seymour Street (both between Georgia and Dunsmuir Streets), and the Dunsmuir entrance between Granville and Seymour.
The station serves the shopping and entertainment districts along Granville and Robson Streets, as well as the office and shopping complexes of Pacific Centre and Vancouver Centre. The station is also within walking distance of such amenities as Robson Square (home of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Provincial Court of British Columbia, and a satellite campus of the University of British Columbia), the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver Library Square, TD Tower, Scotia Tower and the HSBC Canada Building.