TransLink makes service changes every quarter to adjust service for seasonal variations in demand such as the beginning and end of the school year. This year, thanks to the new investments as part of the Mayors’ Council 10-Year Vision, the fall service changes include 105,000 new hours of bus service — the single largest increase in transit service this year.
This is the third increase to bus service this year as part of the 10-Year Vision.
Bus service improvements in 2017
April: 65,000 additional service hours, permanent improvements to 26 routes.
June: 24,000 additional hours, permanent improvements to 16 routes.
September: 105,000 additional hours, permanent improvements to 17 routes, plus 3 new routes.
By the numbers
- 23 percent of the region’s population is touched by these changes (live within a five-minute walk of the impacted bus routes).
- 35 percent of the region’s jobs are within a five-minute walk of the improved routes.
- 20,000 people are getting transit coverage for the first time in the new service areas (equivalent to the number of people in Squamish!) within 5 minutes of bus stop.
Seventeen routes are receiving improvements as part of the 10-Year Vision in order to:
- Reduce crowding:
- 25 Brentwood Station/UBC
- 49 Metrotown Station/Dunbar/UBC
- 84 VCC-Clark Station/UBC
- 130 Metrotown/Hastings/Kootenay/Capilano University
- 240 Vancouver/15th Street
- 351 Crescent Beach/Bridgeport Station
- 430 Metrotown/Brighouse Station
- 620 Tsawwassen Ferry/Bridgeport Station
- Reduce wait times:
- 362 Seaside/White Rock Centre
- C45 Cottonwood/Haney Place
- C46 Albion/Haney Place
- Extend service hours:
- 43 Joyce Station/UBC
- Provide better connections:
- 159 Coquitlam Central Station/Braid Station
- Introduce new service areas
- Morgan Creek
- 354 White Rock South/Bridgeport Station
- 363 Southpoint/Peach Arch Hospital
- Clayton Heights
- 372 Clayton Heights/Langley Centre
- Silver Valley
- 733 Rock Ridge/Haney Place/Port Haney Station
- 741 Anderson Creek/Haney Place/Port Haney Station
- Morgan Creek
