Talk:Vancouver City Centre station

non-connection to Granville

Hi Northwest... rather than continue to edit war, I suggest we sort this out. So the maps indicate a distinctly different situation between Waterfront and Vancouver City Centre/Granville. Waterfront is clearly a transfer station, as are Lougheed, Production Way, Commercial–Broadway, and Columbia. This is not the case with Vancouver City Centre and Granville. You're right: the leaving the fare zone metric is also in play with Waterfront. What's not in play, however, is that if Pacific Centre, Vancouver Centre, or the Bay is closed, there's no connection between the Expo and Canada lines. Waterfront's transfer is always available because the entire facility is under TransLink's purview. These are not equivalent situations. The ability to get from Granville to Vancouver City Centre "indoors" is a convenience, true, but it depends on at least two different third parties and is not a transfer point in the traditional sense. That would be why, I suspect, TransLink does not indicate a meeting of the lines at those two stations. It's walkable, sure, and convenient, yes. But it's not a transfer. The infobox documentation states: connections – Connecting services that serve the station such as bus. It's pretty clear the Expo Line does not serve Vancouver City Centre, nor does the Canada Line serve Granville station. —Joeyconnick (talk) 01:24, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

I agree with your point that being connected to one another via the underground shopping centre is not viable due to the operating hours of those centres, but the surface connection route (via Granville Mall) does not close. That's why in my last edit to the article I omitted "(via Pacific Centre)". I never said that they were equivalent. If they are equivalent to anything, it is what Commercial–Broadway was prior to the amalgamation in 2009. If the argument is that being located across the street isn't good enough to be consider as a connection, and that they need to be linked somehow, I would also argue that both station are physically connected by the Granville Mall. So, maybe the compromise could be that the stations are connected to the Granville Mall (which they are) and not to each other, but the stations are also independent of the transit mall. Maybe there's two separate connections in play. Granville Mall primary, Granville secondary. Thoughts? Northwest (talk) 02:21, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to address the infobox documentation. How many articles include more than buses? It states "such as buses". Main Street–Science World station and Union station (TTC) go against that "rule". How are they any different? It's pretty clear that the Canadian doesn't serve Main Street station, but every train that stops at that station reminds passengers that long distance bus and rail service are available at Pacific Central Station. Again, the compromising connection is Granville Mall, which serves both stations. Northwest (talk) 03:10, 12 February 2019 (UTC)