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 ==Route Details==
-This is a north-south route serving Downtown Vancouver and the neighbourhood of Kitsilano. It is a Frequent Transit Network (FTN) route with service 15 minutes or better for 15 hours or more, seven days a week.
+This is a north-south route running in Vancouver connecting Dunbar Loop and Downtown Vancouver via Kitsilano, with a branch service to W. 16th Avenue & Carnarvon Street. It is a Frequent Transit Network (FTN) route with service 15 minutes or better for 15 hours or more, seven days a week.
-The route leaves Downtown Vancouver from Melville Street at Thurlow and performs a clockwise loop by Thurlow and West Pender to access Burrard Street. It travels south along Burrard crossing the Burrard Street Bridge onto Cornwall Avenue, Point Grey Road and then Macdonald Street. Trips operating as 2 Macdonald–16th Avenue turn west onto W. 16th Avenue and terminate at Carnarvon by doing a U-turn on W. 16th at Trutch. Trips operating as 2 Macdonald continue south on Macdonald Street, west on King Edward, south on Quesnel Drive becoming MacKenzie, west on W. 41st Avenue to Dunbar Loop.
+Northbound trips starting at Dunbar Loop head east on W. 41st Avenue, north on MacKenzie Street becoming Quesnel Drive, east on W. King Edward Avenue, and north on Macdonald Street. Northbound trips starting at W. 16th Avenue & Carnarvon Street head east on W. 16th Avenue to Macdonald Street. Then all trips head north on Macdonald Street becoming Point Grey Road, east on Cornwall Avenue, north on Burrard Street across the Burrard Street Bridge, west on Dunsmuir Street becoming Melville Street, and north on Thurlow Street to Thurlow & Melville.
+Southbound trips depart from Burrard Station at Thurlow Street & Melville Street heading north on Thurlow, east on W. Pender Street, south on Burrard Street and across the Burrard Street Bridge, then west on Cornwall Avenue becoming Point Grey Road and south on Macdonald Street to Macdonald & W. 16th Avenue. Trips operating as 2 Macdonald–16th head west on W. 16th Avenue to W. 16th & Trutch Street where it does a U-turn and heads east on W. 16th to Carnarvon Street. Trips running as 2 Macdonald continue south on Macdonald Street, west on W. King Edward Avenue, south on Quesnel Drive becoming MacKenzie Street, and west on W. 41st Avenue to Dunbar Loop.
 Southbound trips alternate between the Macdonald routing to Dunbar Loop and the 16th Avenue routing to W. 16th & Carnarvon Street. On weekdays, there is no evening 16th Avenue service.
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 * June 2016 - Route temporarily extended to Dunbar Loop to replace the [[Coast Mountain Bus Company route 22 'Knight / Downtown'|22]] during the Burrard Corridor Rehabilitation Project; northbound trips renamed from '''2 Burrard Station''' to '''2 Downtown'''<ref>[http://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/rider_guide/Buzzer%20Vault/2010s/2016/Buzzer_06_17_2016.pdf The Buzzer June 17, 2016 Issue], translink.ca, retrieved 27-06-2016</ref>
 * September 2020 - 23 stops in both directions removed as part of a six-week pilot project for bus stop balancing to improve bus travel times
+* November 2020 - End of bus stop balancing pilot project results in two removed stops being reinstated at Macdonald & W. 13th and remainder of removed stops permanently removed
 ==References==