Coast Mountain Bus Company route N19 'Surrey Central Station / New Westminster / Downtown Nightbus'
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Service Area | Vancouver Burnaby New Westminster Surrey | ||
Termini | Surrey Central Station New Westminster Station (select trips) Downtown NightBus Terminus (Pender Street at Howe Street) | ||
Operations | Surrey Transit Centre Burnaby Transit Centre (select eastbound trips only) Hamilton Transit Centre (select eastbound weekend/holiday trips) | ||
Vehicles | NFI C40LF ** NFI D40LF NFI D40LFR NFI D60LF * NFI D60LFR * NFI DE60LFR * NFI XDE60 NFI XN40 ** Nova Bus LFS * Nova Bus LFS HEV ** | ||
Branches | N19 Surrey Central Station NightBus N19 Downtown NightBus N19 New West Station NightBus (select trips) | ||
Daytime Routes | 19 Metrotown Station/Stanley Park 106 New Westminster Station/Edmonds Station 119 Metrotown Station/Edmonds Station | ||
* Burnaby Transit Centre trips |
N19 Surrey Central Station/New Westminster Station/Downtown NightBus is a NightBus route operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Route Details
This route was one of the first NightBus routes re-introduced after funding cuts in 2001. It provides service between Downtown, Burnaby, New Westminster and Surrey from approximately 1:00AM to 5:00AM on weekday nights with the last trip departing Downtown as late as 7:00AM on Sunday and Holiday mornings. The route generally parallels the Expo Line including sections of day-time service route 19 Metrotown Station/Stanley Park .
The route leaves the NightBus terminus on Howe at Dunsmuir to take Howe, West Georgia eastbound, Seymour northbound and Pender Street eastbound to get to Main Street. However, due to extensive water main work along Pender street, the route is detoured off Pender to Hastings Street between Seymour and Main streets. From Main the route heads south onto Kingsway through Vancouver and Burnaby to turn onto Edmonds Street and south on 6th Street. It performs a loop with 6th Street, Columbia Street and 8th Street to enter New Westminster SkyTrain Station, where some trips terminate. Most other trips leave the station by 8th Street, Royal Avenue and on-ramp to access the King George Highway and the Pattullo Bridge. The route continues east along King George using Scott Road to access Scott Road SkyTrain Station and leaving the station by on-ramp access back onto King George followed by 104th Avenue and finally 135th Street to Surrey Central SkyTrain Station.
Westbound trips to Downtown leave Surrey Central Station by 102nd Avenue and 134th Street to King George highway. It exits Pattullo Bridge by looping along the off-ramp, McBride Boulevard to Columbia Street and then 8th Street to New Westminster SkyTrain Station. Leaving New Westminster Station, westbound trips take 8th Street, Royal to get onto 6th Street. Trips arriving in Downtown use West Pender to arrive on Howe Street and the NightBus terminus.
Points of Interest
- NightBus terminus (Bay 3)
- Granville Station
- Chinatown
- Main Street–Science World Station
- Central Station (Amtrak)
- Mount St. Joseph Hospital
- Central Park
- Metropolis at Metrotown
- Royal City Centre
- Westminster Mall
- New Westminster Station (Bay 4 - Westbound and Eastbound)
- St. Mary's Hospital (Eastbound)
- Columbia Station (Westbound)
- Scott Road Station
- Surrey Central Station
- Simon Fraser University - Surrey Campus
- Central City Shopping Centre
History
- 2001 - All NightBus routes cancelled due to funding shortfall[1]
- September 2004 - Service introduced six nights a week and route is extended to end at Surrey Central Station
- December 2004 - Sunday service introduced[2]
- April 2006 - Service revised to terminate at new bays on Howe Street between Georgia and Hastings due to construction of the Canada Line[3]
- December 2010 - Revised to operate along 8th Street between Carnarvon Street and Columbia Street due to ongoing work at New Westminster Station[4]
- September 2015 - Service upgrades result in improved alignments with first Eastbound Expo Line train departures [5]
References
- ↑ NightBus Service Expanded to Six Nights a Week, translink.bc.ca, retrieved 13-09-2009
- ↑ TransLink rolls out new NightBus service and expands other transit services in September, translink.bc.ca, retrieved 09-13-2009
- ↑ The Buzzer April 24, 2006 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 23-04-2010
- ↑ The Buzzer December 3, 2010 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 28-12-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer September 4, 2015 issue, translink.ca, retrieved 07-09-2015