Coast Mountain Bus Company route N9 'Coquitlam Central Station / Downtown Nightbus'
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Service Area | Coquitlam Port Moody Burnaby Vancouver | |
Termini | Coquitlam Central Station Howe Street at Dunsmuir Street | |
Operations | Port Coquitlam Transit Centre | |
Vehicles | NFI C40LFR NFI D60LFR NFI XDE60 NFI XN40 | |
Branches | N9 Coquitlam Central Station NightBus N9 Downtown NightBus | |
Daytime Routes | Millennium Line 99 B-Line |
N9 Coquitlam Central Station/Downtown NightBus is a NightBus route operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Route Details
This is an overnight bus route providing service 7 days a week in lieu of regular Millennium Line service and in lieu of various bus service along Broadway and in Coquitlam. Service runs every 20-30 minutes in each direction with 10 trips eastbound and 9 trips westbound on weekdays, 12 trips eastbound and 11 trips westbound on Saturdays, and 13 trips both east and westbound on Sundays/holidays. Two additional westbound trips on weekdays (one late night and one early morning) and one late night on weekends/holidays start at Lougheed Station.
The route departs Howe Street at Dunsmuir Street and takes Howe to cross the Granville Street Bridge and then Broadway heading east. It continues along Lougheed Highway where Broadway meets Rupert Street, takes Boundary, Henning Drive to access Gilmore Station and re-enters Lougheed Highway. It continues to North Road, Clarke Road, Clarke Drive and Charles Street to access the Barnet Highway/St. Johns Street, Ioco Road, Guildford Way and then Pinetree Way to arrive at Coquitlam Central Station. Westbound trips use Access Road, Mariner Way and Barnet to get back onto Pinetree. It exits Granville Street Bridge to enter Downtown by Seymour Street using West Hastings to loop onto Howe.
Points of Interest
- Granville Station
- Vancouver City Centre Station
- Vancouver Art Gallery and Robson Square
- Downtown Entertainment District
- Vancouver General Hospital
- Broadway–City Hall Station (Bay 2 – Coquitlam Central Station) (Bays 4 & 5 – Downtown)
- Commercial–Broadway Station (Bay 1 – Coquitlam Central Station) (Bay 4 – Downtown)
- Gilmore Station
- Brentwood Town Centre Station (Bay 2 – Downtown) (Bay 5 – Coquitlam Central Station)
- Holdom Station
- Sperling–Burnaby Lake Station
- Lake City Way Station
- Production Way–University Station (Bay 2 – Coquitlam Central Station) (Bay 4 – Downtown)
- Lougheed Town Centre Station (Bay 10)
- Burquitlam Station (Bay 5 – Coquitlam Central Station) (Bay 6 – Downtown)
- Burquitlam Mall
- Inlet Centre Station (Bay 1 – Downtown) (Bay 2 – Coquitlam Central Station)
- Douglas College – Coquitlam Campus
- Coquitlam Centre
- Westwood Mall Shopping Centre
- Coquitlam Central Station (Bay 6)
History
- Pre-2001 - Service operated as portions of the Owl Service components of the 9 Granville/Boundary and the 150 Lougheed Mall/Vancouver
- September 2001 - All Owl routes cancelled due to funding shortfall[1]
- December 2004 - Service introduced, running between downtown and Lougheed Station and ran until 3:10AM from Monday to Sunday[2]
- April 2006 - Service rerouted due to construction of the Canada Line; service revised to operate northbound along Seymour and southbound along Howe; service to terminate at new bus bays on Howe between Georgia and Hastings[3]
- December 2006 - Eastbound service revised to route into Gilmore, Sperling, and Production stations to improve passenger safety and convenience[4]
- December 2016 - Increased service between Coquitlam Central and Lougheed stations to increase service on Evergreen Extension corridor during NightBus hours
- April 2020 - Discontinuation of Lougheed short-turns and increased daily service in both directions
References
- ↑ NightBus Service Expanded to Six Nights a Week, translink.bc.ca, retrieved 09-13-2009
- ↑ The Buzzer December 24, 2004 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 19-01-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer April 24, 2006 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 23-04-2010
- ↑ The Buzzer December 8, 2006 Issue translink.ca, retrieved 20-04-2020