Kootenay Loop is a bus loop in
Vancouver
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, British Columbia, Canada. It is the easternmost major transit exchange in the city of Vancouver, with routes serving Vancouver,
Burnaby
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,
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.
Structure and location
Kootenay Loop opened on August 20, 1950, and is located on East Hastings Street at its intersection with Kootenay Street. It is less than from
Vancouver
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's border with the city of
Burnaby
Burnaby is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the centre of the Burrard Peninsula, it neighbours the City of Vancouver to the west, the District of North Vancouver across the confluence of the Burrard ...
. It is near the
Pacific National Exhibition
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grounds and the
Second Narrows Bridge
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to North Vancouver. It is located just northwest of the Burnaby Transit Centre, which houses the public transit buses for Burnaby.
The exchange can handle regular-length diesel buses,
articulated bus
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es and electric
trolley bus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...
es. Part of the exchange is on Hastings Street itself, with the other section (used by the trolley buses) is separated from regular traffic. It is also one of the power stations for the trolleys.
Kootenay Loop used to be a streetcar turnaround as there was no service into Burnaby after 1949. There was a small cafe in the centre until the mid-1950s.
Routes
, the following routes serve Kootenay Loop:
See also
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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 Tr ...
References
External links
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TransLink (British Columbia) bus stations
1950 establishments in British Columbia