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.
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Service Area | Vancouver Burnaby | ||
Termini | Burrard Station Simon Fraser University | ||
Operations | Burnaby Transit Centre Port Coquitlam Transit Centre (select AM peak hour trips) | ||
Vehicles | NFI C40LFR * NFI D60LF NFI D60LFR * NFI DE60LFR NFI XDE60 NFI XN40 * Nova Bus LFS ** | ||
Branches | 135 SFU 135 Burrard Station 135 To Willingdon (select PM peak hour trips) 135 To Duthie and Hastings ** | ||
* on select AM peak hour trips |
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 west 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.
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 Station (Bay 6)
History
- July 1961 - Service introduced as 35 Westridge, connecting Kootenay Loop to Pandora and Inlet[1]
- September 1965 - Service extended up Burnaby Mountain during peak hours to coincide with opening of Simon Fraser University[2]
- October 1984 - Service rebranded from 35 Westridge-SFU to 135 SFU/To Duthie/Kootenay Loop[3]
- 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 [4]
- 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[5]
- September 2002 - Millenium Line transit rationalisation, route shortened to Burrard Station, westbound from Hastings at Howe, then Howe, Georgia to Burrard
- December 2016 - Routed replaced by the 95 SFU / Burrard Station B-Line [6]
References
- ↑ The Buzzer July 14, 1961 Issue translink.ca, retrieved 26-01-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer August 27, 1965 Issue translink.ca, retrieved 26-01-2017
- ↑ 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