Coast Mountain Bus Company route 135 'SFU / Burrard Stn'
135 SFU/Burrard Station is a bus route operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Route Details
The 135 provides limited stop service (Express service) seven days a week, 15 minutes or better, 15 hours a day or more as an east-west Frequent Transit Network (FTN) route. It provides service between Downtown Vancouver and Simon Fraser University atop Burnaby Mountain.
The route exits SFU Exchange by South Campus Road and heads north along Gaglardi, west along University Drive West onto the Burnaby Mountain Parkway to reach Hastings Street. It travels east on Hastings Street and takes Howe and West Georgia to arrive on Burrard Street at its Downtown terminus. Eastbound trips travel down Burrard back onto Hastings Street. It uses Burnaby Mountain Parkway to access Gaglardi, University Drive East and then East Campus Road to terminate at SFU Exchange. Currently, there are plans to make the route into the 95 B-Line.
Route Stops
Local service between SFU Exchange and Hastings at Windermere (PNE Park & Ride)
- Hastings at Renfrew
- Nanaimo
- Commercial
- Main
- Abbott
- Homer
- Hastings at Granville
- Howe at Pender
- Burrard Station
Points of Interest
- Simon Fraser University Exchange (Bay 2)
- Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
- Kensington Park
- Pacific National Exhibition/Hastings Park
- Hastings Community Park
- Kootenay Loop Bay 7 and Bay 8
- Chinatown
- Victoria Square
- Vancouver Art Gallery
- Hotel Vancouver
- Burrard Street SkyTrain Stn (Bay 6)
History
- BC Transit Era - Route known as 135 SFU/Kootenay Loop
- April 1997 - Route 135 extended to Stanley Park.
- (Westbound) via: East Campus Rd, South Campus Rd, Gaglardi Way, University Drive, Burnaby Mountain Parkway, Hastings, Duthie, Ridge, Inlet, Hastings, Richards, Pender, Georgia, Chilco to Stanley Park Loop
- (Eastbound) via: Chilco, Georgia, Pender, Seymour, Hastings, Inlet, Ridge, Duthie, Hastings, Burnaby Mountain Parkway, Gaglardi Way, University Drive, East Campus Rd
- September 1998 - Articulated Buses introduced on route 135 [1]
- December 1999 - Downtown routing diverted via Burrard Street, AM peak via: Hastings, Burrard to Dunsmuir and PM peak via: Pender, Burrard, Hastings
- September 2002 - Millenium Line transit rationalisation, route shortened to Burrard Station, westbound from Hastings at Howe, then Howe, Georgia to Burrard
Vehicles
- The route runs out of Burnaby Transit Centre. New Flyer Industries D60LF , New Flyer Industries D60LFR and New Flyer Industries DE60LFR buses service the route. Additional service from Port Coquitlam Transit Centre in the weekday AM peak hour rush take the form of New Flyer Industries D60LF , New Flyer Industries C40LFR and New Flyer Industries D40LF models.
References
- ↑ The Buzzer August 21, 1998 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 09-10-2014