Vancouver 99B Line Bus - 100 000 riders per day!

[#Metro]

You can do quite a lot with buses. 100,000 per day is around 26 million pax per year.

http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2014/03/watch-real-time-transit-planning-helps-north-americas-busiest-bus-line/8725/?utm_source=SFFB

Vancouver has a problem with its 99 Broadway bus that most cities would envy: it's too popular. The 99 is part of a Broadway bus corridor that's considered the busiest in North America, carrying about 100,000 riders a day. At some stops, despite coming every few minutes during morning rush, the buses hardly put a dent in the lines of passengers awaiting the next one.

Broadway is the busiest bus corridor in North America, carrying over 100,000 transit riders per day, twice the ridership of the SkyTrain Millennium Line and equal to the Canada Line.

http://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/study-shows-rapid-transit-key-to-unlocking-potential-of-ubc-broadway-corridor.aspx

[STB]

Don't encourage Quirk and the BCC!

[James]

Don't encourage Quirk and the BCC!

If you ask Quirk and Co., he'd inform you that there's no possible way patronage could be that high on the 99 anyway because the bus does not go to the City.

Vancouver's B-Line services are effectively SkyTrains, but run as buses. They've got insanely high frequency, have all-door boarding and only stop every 1-2km or so (about the same stop spacing as a SkyTrain). They're essentially a pre-cursor to building a SkyTrain line.

[#Metro]

Yes, I think it uses superbuses every 2 minutes or something like that.

Before and after the 99B line
https://voony.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/before-and-after-the-99b-line/

I wonder what BCC thinks of this? It doesn't go to the CBD, it performs interchange and LOOK
how close it is to the CBD! Must be contributing to traffic congestion as people 'leave for their car' due to the interchange. 

http://infomaps.translink.ca/Route_Diagrams/103/r099.pdf

UBC 99 B-Line