Two bus routes that originate in New Westminster have been listed in the top 10-most crowded in all of Metro Vancouver.
The 100 - 22nd Street Station/Marpole Loop was listed at #6 on the “10 most-crowded bus routes” list in the latest edition TransLink’s Buzzer Blog. The route was overcrowded for 9,900 annual revenue hours, or 18 per cent of the time.
At #8 was the 410 – 22nd Street Station/Queensborough/Railway route at eight-per-cent overcrowded. Both are well behind the most-crowded bus route, the 99 UBC/Commercial-Broadway Station B-line, at 31 per cent overcrowded.
TransLInk says, however, that the implementation of more buses on the most-crowded routes has reduced the overcrowding numbers.
The 106 – Edmonds Station/New Westminster Station route route ranks number 10 on the most-used bus routes, with more than 6.2 million annual boardings.
The numbers were released as part of the 2017 Transit Service Performance Review released Thursday by TransLink.
The numbers also revealed that the New Westminster SkyTrain station is the eighth-busiest in the region, with 14,800 average weekday boardings.
