A bus route that originates in Burnaby has been listed as the second-most crowded in all of Metro Vancouver.
The #25 Brentwood Station/UBC was put on the “10 most-crowded bus routes” list in the latest edition TransLink’s Buzzer Blog. The route was overcrowded for 17,800 annual revenue hours, or 19 per cent of the time. That’s well behind the most-crowded bus route, the 99 UBC/Commercial-Broadway Station B-line, at 31 per cent overcrowded.
The good news is that after TransLink implemented its first phase of service improvements, including adding more buses, the #25 overcrowding has dropped eight per cent during the busy weekdays, based on the numbers from 2017 to 2017.
The #25 route ranks number five on the most-used bus routes, with more than 7.6 million annual boardings.
The #49 Metrotown Station/UBC is fourth on the list at 18 per cent overcrowded, although that number showed a three-per-cent drop.The numbers were released as part of the 2017 Transit Service Performance Review released Thursday by TransLink.
The numbers also revealed that the Metrotown SkyTrain station is the fifth-busiest in the region, with 19,900 average weekday boardings.
