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List Of Bus Routes In Metro Vancouver
The following list of current bus routes in Metro Vancouver is sorted by region and route number. Routes with trolleybuses, articulated buses or suburban highway buses are noted as such. All route destination names are based on the official TransLink bus schedules. All routes are operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company except: * Routes 214 (off-peak only), 215, 227, 250–256 and 262 (operated by West Vancouver Blue Bus) * Routes 280–282, 370, 372, and 560–564 (operated by First Transit) This list is effective . In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Notes and explanations General notes Tag legend * Bus/route types: ** ''(default)'' – Operates mostly or always with buses ** – Operates mostly or always with trolley buses (or with addition of ) ** – Operates mostly or always with highway coach buses ** – Operates mostly or always with community shuttle minibuses ** – Operates mostly or always with articulated buse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunbar Street
Dunbar Street is a road in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The street runs through the Dunbar–Southlands neighbourhood from 51st Avenue and the Point Grey Golf and Country Club in the south and continues to the north as Alma Street, via the Dunbar Diversion. The built-up commercial area along Dunbar Street is surrounded predominantly by single-family propertiesthe only such commercial strip in Vancouver. Separately, Dunbar Street runs through West Point Grey West Point Grey is a neighbourhood in the northwest of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is on Point Grey and bordered by 16th Avenue to the south, Alma Street to the east, English Bay to the north, and Blanca Street to the ... as a narrow residential road, from 13th Avenue to Point Grey Road. The commercial area along Dunbar is resistant to change; many businesses in the area have been established in their locations for more than 50 years. Examples include Stong's Market, which opened in 1931, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davie Village
Davie Village (also known as Davie District or simply Davie Street) is a neighbourhood in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the city's LGBT subculture, and, as such, is often considered a gay village, or ''gaybourhood''. Davie Village is centred on Davie Street and roughly includes the area between Burrard and Jervis streets. Davie Street—and, by extension, the Village—is named in honour of A.E.B. Davie, eighth Premier of British Columbia from 1887 to 1889; A.E.B's brother Theodore was also Premier, from 1892 to 1895. Overview Along Davie Street are a variety of shops, restaurants, services, and hotels catering to a variety of customers, in addition to private residences. The business with the most notoriety is Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium ("Little Sister's"), a gay and lesbian bookstore, because of its ongoing legal battles with Canada Customs that have received extensive national media coverage. Many businesses and residen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robson Street
Robson Street is a major southeast-northwest thoroughfare in downtown and West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its core commercial blocks from Burrard Street to Jervis were also known as Robsonstrasse. Its name honours John Robson, a major figure in British Columbia's entry into the Canadian Confederation, and Premier of the province from 1889 to 1892. Robson Street starts at BC Place Stadium near the north shore of False Creek, then runs northwest past Vancouver Library Square, Robson Square and the Vancouver Art Gallery, coming to an end at Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. As of 2006, the city of Vancouver overall had the fifth most expensive retail rental rates in the world, averaging US$135 per square foot per year, citywide. Robson Street tops Vancouver with its most expensive locations renting for up to US$200 per square foot per year. In 2006, both Robson Street and the Mink Mile on Bloor Street in Toronto were the 22nd most expensive streets in the world, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Street (Vancouver)
Main Street is a major north–south thoroughfare bisecting Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It runs from Waterfront Road by Burrard Inlet in the north, to Kent Avenue alongside the north arm of the Fraser River in the south. Route Beginning by the Port of Vancouver terminals near the nexus of the city's historic Downtown Eastside and Gastown districts, the street runs south through Chinatown south of Hastings Street and continues past the Pacific Central railway station and the Main Street–Science World SkyTrain station. At Terminal Avenue, it slopes up into the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, which mixes commerce, light industry, brewing, and high-density residential areas. The residential/commercial mix continues south of Broadway, with a high density of restaurants and fashion retailing. This neighbourhood was once blue-collar but is growing distinctly upscale. Between 33rd Avenue and 41st Avenue, the street becomes decidedly more residential as it reaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterfront Station (Vancouver)
Waterfront station is a major Intermodal passenger transport, intermodal public transportation facility and the main transit terminus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is on West Cordova Street in Downtown Vancouver, between Granville and Seymour Street. The station is also accessible via two other street-level entrances, one on Howe Street to the west for direct access to the Expo Line (SkyTrain), Expo Line and another on Granville Street to the south for direct access to the Canada Line. The station is within walking distance of Vancouver's historical Gastown district, Canada Place, Vancouver Convention Centre, Harbour Centre, Sinclair Centre, and the Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre float plane terminal. A heliport operated by Helijet, along with the downtown campuses for Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology, are also located within the vicinity of the station. History Waterfront station was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunbar Loop
Dunbar Loop is a major transit exchange located in the Dunbar–Southlands neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It opened on May 22, 1950, and is the westernmost exchange in the City of Vancouver. Dunbar Loop can accommodate both diesel and Trolleybus, trolley buses of various lengths, including articulated bus, articulated buses. It is part of the TransLink (British Columbia), TransLink system and also acts as a power station for trolleys. Structure and location Dunbar Loop is located at the intersection of Dunbar Street and West 41st Avenue in the Dunbar–Southlands neighbourhood of Vancouver. The majority of the services at this exchange load and unload at Dunbar Street or 41st Avenue, while 2 services (2 and N22) load and unload inside the loop. Because of its proximity to the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University Endowment Lands, it is heavily used by students. All routes going westbound from Dunbar Loop terminate at UBC during regular we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown Vancouver
Downtown Vancouver is the central business district and the city centre list of neighbourhoods in Vancouver, neighbourhood of Vancouver, Canada, on the northwestern shore of the Burrard Peninsula in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. It occupies most of the north shore of the False Creek inlet, which cuts into the Burrard Peninsula creating the Downtown Peninsula, where the West End, Vancouver, West End neighbourhood and Stanley Park are also located. Along with West End, Stanley Park and the nearby Downtown Eastside, Downtown makes up Central Vancouver, one of the city's three main areas (the others being East Vancouver, East Side and West Side). With a disproportionately high amount of residential towers for a central business district in a geographically constrained area, Downtown Vancouver is one of the densest areas in the country. Geography The Downtown area is generally considered to be bounded by Burrard Inlet to the north, West End, Vancouver, West End to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce–Collingwood Station
Joyce–Collingwood (formerly Joyce) is an elevated station on the Expo Line, a part of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located on Joyce Street at Vanness Avenue, in the Renfrew–Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. History The station was designed by the Austrian architecture firm Architektengruppe U-Bahn and opened in 1985 as "Joyce station" on the original Expo Line. It replaced Joyce Loop, located south at the intersection of Joyce Street and Kingsway, as the main transfer point for local transit services in the area. Trolley wires were extended to the station in early 1986 to bring trolley buses to the station's bus loop. The station is located on the former right-of-way once used by the British Columbia Electric Railway's Central Park Line; this line ran from just west of Nanaimo station to where New Westminster station is located. Formerly an industrial area, the immediate vicinity of this station has si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
