West Vancouver commuters have some good news in store for them this week, as service from West Vancouver to the downtown core will get a two-way bus service and 51 new stops.
Blue bus routes 250A, 251 and 252 are to be expanded, with the extended service beginning on Saturday, April 5. "We're committed to working with our partners at the District of West Vancouver to improve travel routes and help customers get where they need to go," said Doug Kelsey, the chief operating officer at TransLink, in a press release.
"We're excited to be putting in place some of the service improvements that residents of the North Shore have identified as priorities."
The Dundarave, Queens and Inglewood bus routes will now have two direction service instead of one, which is expected to increase the frequency of service.
The Dundarave-Vancouver bus service is to increase the speed of service from Monday to Friday, planning to pick transit users up every seven and a half minutes during peak hours instead of the previously scheduled 15 minutes.
Off-peak weekday and weekend pickups are scheduled for every ten minutes instead of 15.
Queens and Inglewood are expected to have half hour pick-ups during peak periods, but hourly pick-ups otherwise. People travelling downtown on either of those routes will need to transfer at Dundarave or Park Royal, with a wait time of approximately five minutes.
The changes are the result of years of public consultation, beginning back in the fall of 2010 and ending summer 2012 and involved more than 2,500 North Shore residents and stakeholders, according to the press release.
