The City of Burnaby is looking to spend $9.8 million in the next few years to add “accent lighting” along SkyTrain’s Expo line.
The project would be done in four phases, stretching to January 2023, with a series of coloured lights being added to the large columns on the SkyTrain, including lights that would reflect on the ground in various shapes and designs.
The project is similar to the one completed by Coquitlam for the Evergreen line, with the large columns changing colours and designs up and down North Road on the Burquitlam border.
The first two phases will cost $3.4 million, starting with lighting on 12 columns from Metrotown Skytrain station to Willingdon Avenue by this December. The second project will add lighting from Metrotown Skytrain station to Imperial Street and Willingdon to Patterson SkyTrain station by April 2022.
“The scope of this project requires design/build services to fully design, engineer, supply and install a complete working accent lighting system on the guideway Skytrain columns along Beresford Corridor.
According to a city staff report, once those two phases are completed, the stretch of SkyTrain from Imperial to Royal Oak SkyTrain station will be completed for $1.4 million by June 2022. After that, lighting would be added from Royal Oak to the Edmonds SkyTrain station by January 2023 at a cost of $4.9 million.
Future funding requests for the latter two zones will be included in the 2022 – 2026 capital plan.
