Coast Mountain Bus Company route 135 'SFU / Burrard Stn'
135 SFU/Burrard Station was a bus route operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Route Details
The 135 provided 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 provided service between Downtown Vancouver and Simon Fraser University atop Burnaby Mountain.
The route exited 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 traveled east on Hastings Street and takes Howe and West Georgia to arrive on Burrard Street at its Downtown terminus. Eastbound trips traveled down Burrard back onto Hastings Street. It used Burnaby Mountain Parkway to access Gaglardi, University Drive East and then East Campus Road to terminate at SFU Exchange. The route would then be renamed into the 95 B-Line in late 2016.
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
- October 1984 - Service rebranded from 35 Westridge-SFU to 135 SFU/To Duthie/Kootenay Loop[1]
- 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 [2]
- December 1999 - Downtown routing diverted via Burrard Street, AM peak via: Hastings, Burrard to Dunsmuir and PM peak via: Pender, Burrard, Hastings
- June 2002 - Western terminus moved to current Stanley Park loop due to closure of Chilco Loop[3]
- September 2002 - Millenium Line transit rationalisation, route shortened to Burrard Station, westbound from Hastings at Howe, then Howe, Georgia to Burrard
- December 2016 - Routed ended in favour of the more reliable 95 'SFU / Burrard Stn (B-Line) [4]
Vehicles
- The route ran out of Burnaby Transit Centre. New Flyer Industries D60LF , New Flyer Industries D60LFR , New Flyer Industries DE60LFR , and New Flyer Industries XDE60 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 XN40 models.
References
- ↑ The Buzzer October 12, 1984 Issue translink.ca, retrieved 04-01-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer August 21, 1998 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 09-10-2014
- ↑ The Buzzer June 14, 2002 Issue translink.ca, retrieved 06-01-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer Blog November 29, 2016 translink.ca retrieved 12-12-2016