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The 99 B-Line carries an average of 40,000 passengers daily throughout the year and 60,000 passengers daily throughout the school year (Sept. to April). Here are its loads:

Eastbound

UBC 66%

Westbrook 82% <- load leaving UBC

Sasamat 80%

Alma 83%

Macdonald 83%

Granville 90%

Willow 95%

Cambie 100% (11,000 pass/day)

Main 91%

Clarke 87%

Westbound

Commerical 97%

Clarke 98%

Main 100% (12,000 pass/day)

Cambie 93%

Willow 85%

Granville 69%

Macdonald 67%

Alma 66%

Sasamat 65% <- load coming to UBC

Westbrook 43%

Makes all the sense for SkyTrain all the way to UBC.

You should post the Google Earth visualization for this data. It looks much more impressive/depressing like that.

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Here's the data for the top busiest bus routes of 2007:

# Route Boardings

== ===== =========

1 99 44,000

2 20 30,500

3 9 28,500

4 98 27,500

5 41 27,000

6 3 22,000

7 22 21,500

8 8 21,500

9 17 20,500

10 16 19,000

11 25 18,500

12 135 16,500

13 106 15,500

14 49 15,200

15 10 13,800

16 19 13,800

17 7 12,300

18 410 11,000

19 5 10,500

20 130 10,400

21 97 10,200

22 145 10,200

23 15 9,800

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Here's the data for the top busiest bus routes of 2007:

# Route Boardings

== ===== =========

1 99 44,000

4 98 27,500

Yet the Canada Line gets the go ahead before Millenium Line west, because sucking up to air travelling tourists gets priority over providing transportation to university students living off of Kraft Dinner?

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Yet the Canada Line gets the go ahead before Millenium Line west, because sucking up to air travelling tourists gets priority over providing transportation to university students living off of Kraft Dinner?

The 98 B-Line is a very small part of the entire Richmond-Vancouver corridor picture. Both the UBC extension and the C-Line are needed.

Anyhow, the UBC extension would probably have a ridership of 200,000/daily by itself.

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Here's the data for the top busiest bus routes of 2007:

# Route Boardings

== ===== =========

1 99 44,000

2 20 30,500

3 9 28,500

4 98 27,500

5 41 27,000

6 3 22,000

7 22 21,500

8 8 21,500

9 17 20,500

10 16 19,000

11 25 18,500

12 135 16,500

13 106 15,500

14 49 15,200

15 10 13,800

16 19 13,800

17 7 12,300

18 410 11,000

19 5 10,500

20 130 10,400

21 97 10,200

22 145 10,200

23 15 9,800

whoa, where did you find that? Also, do you have a complete list (or a bigger one)?

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The 98 B-Line is a very small part of the entire Richmond-Vancouver corridor picture. Both the UBC extension and the C-Line are needed.

Anyhow, the UBC extension would probably have a ridership of 200,000/daily by itself.

Okay, how does the 99 compare to the 98 combined with every 400-, 600- and 350- series routes that run to Vancouver?

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Bus lane paves way for shoppers

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Thousands more people will travel into Richmond next year, courtesy of a new rapid bus link from South Surrey and White Rock.

Transportation minister Kevin Falcon and Richmond East MLA Linda Reid broke ground last week on Highway 99 where a dedicated bus lane will be built to facilitate the new route.

Instead of running directly into downtown Vancouver, the new route, serviced by RapidBus BC, will ferry in commuters to the Bridgeport Canada Line station when it opens late 2009.

It's anticipated that many people will then use the Canada Line to continue their journey into Vancouver.

But the kicker for Richmond could come from White Rock and South Surrey people choosing the city as a shopping destination, as opposed to heading to Vancouver.

Both of Richmond's shopping attractions, Lansdowne Centre and Richmond Centre, will have Canada Line stations on their doorsteps.

When constructed, the new 2.8-kilometre bus lane will link Westminster Highway and Bridgeport Road.

"Transportation infrastructure projects like this bus-only lane will give commuters more reasons to take transit," Reid said.

"With this new bus lane, and the Canada Line's estimated 100,000 riders daily, improved transit connections to and through Richmond will provide tremendous benefits to our local economy."

Jacob Bros. Construction Ltd. of Surrey was awarded the $4.7-million contract to build the four-metre-wide shoulder bus lane, which will be complete in summer 2009.

Falcon is adamant the introduction of the new bus lane and rapid transit route will encourage more drivers to use transit.

"This dedicated bus lane will move transit riders past rush-hour congestion on one of the busiest stretches of Highway 99 northbound," he said. "When we provide transit options like this that are quicker and more convenient than the single-occupant vehicle, we'll get people out of their cars and reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

The shoulder of Highway 99 northbound from Westminster to Bridgeport will be widened to create the bus-only lane. Warning signals at on-ramps along the route will be automatically activated to give priority to buses.

The lane will be used by current northbound transit service, and will also be used by RapidBus, once in operation, to carry commuters to the Canada Line's Bridgeport Station. "The new bus lane will offer superior travel time reliability for south of Fraser commuters connecting to the Canada Line and we appreciate the province's initiative to move quickly on this project," said Tom Prendergast, CEO of TransLink.

"There's no doubt that motorists will notice how well the bus-only lanes help our highway coaches avoid the heavy traffic line-ups and we expect this is going to entice quite a few more Vancouver-bound commuters onto transit."

acampbell@richmond-news.com

http://www.canada.com/richmondnews/news/st...f8-b99282a54615

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So apparently buses in the Victoria transit fleet don't have snow tires, according to one of the drivers I had today (see story below - it was quite amusing). When they're telling people to stay off the roads, how can the buses not have snow tires??

Anyway, I had the awesomest bus driver on the way into town today. I've had him before - he likes to chat over the PA while driving. Starts off with the usual "Welcome to BC Transit. My name is Dan and I'll be your driver today. Time is <time> and we're currently on schedule to arrive at <place> at <time>. The current weather is..."

Today he followed the current weather with a weather forecast. Got to Sunday and it went something like this:

"We're expecting lots of snow on Sunday, and you know how that makes us transit drivers feel with no snow tires on our buses...about as nervous as Stephen Harper in a gay bar."

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But the kicker for Richmond could come from White Rock and South Surrey people choosing the city as a shopping destination, as opposed to heading to Vancouver.

Both of Richmond's shopping attractions, Lansdowne Centre and Richmond Centre, will have Canada Line stations on their doorsteps.

No mention of Aberdeen? It has the most character out of the three.

If you want a generic shopping mall like Lansdowne or Richmond Centre, you might as well stick to Semiahmoo or Scottsdale Mall, without going too far away.

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So apparently buses in the Victoria transit fleet don't have snow tires, according to one of the drivers I had today (see story below - it was quite amusing). When they're telling people to stay off the roads, how can the buses not have snow tires??

Anyway, I had the awesomest bus driver on the way into town today. I've had him before - he likes to chat over the PA while driving. Starts off with the usual "Welcome to BC Transit. My name is Dan and I'll be your driver today. Time is <time> and we're currently on schedule to arrive at <place> at <time>. The current weather is..."

Today he followed the current weather with a weather forecast. Got to Sunday and it went something like this:

"We're expecting lots of snow on Sunday, and you know how that makes us transit drivers feel with no snow tires on our buses...about as nervous as Stephen Harper in a gay bar."

Ha I love bus drivers like that. Next time you should get his name and note the bus number and time, then write a little email to BC Transit saying how the driver went out of his way to be friendly. Apparently it goes a long way for them.

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So apparently buses in the Victoria transit fleet don't have snow tires, according to one of the drivers I had today (see story below - it was quite amusing). When they're telling people to stay off the roads, how can the buses not have snow tires??

Anyway, I had the awesomest bus driver on the way into town today. I've had him before - he likes to chat over the PA while driving. Starts off with the usual "Welcome to BC Transit. My name is Dan and I'll be your driver today. Time is <time> and we're currently on schedule to arrive at <place> at <time>. The current weather is..."

Today he followed the current weather with a weather forecast. Got to Sunday and it went something like this:

"We're expecting lots of snow on Sunday, and you know how that makes us transit drivers feel with no snow tires on our buses...about as nervous as Stephen Harper in a gay bar."

LOL. Reminds me of this TransLink driver who does trivia questions on the bus.

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