The latest data from TransLink shows transit ridership reached an all-time high in 2018 – listing off the busiest transit routes in Burnaby.
The 2018 Transit Service Performance Review measures ridership, cost, reliability, on-time performance and crowding across all transit modes. The findings are used to develop future service changes and identify opportunities to improve service.
Included in the data is a list of the top-10 business bus routes in Metro Vancouver.
Topping the list, of course, is the 99 B Line to UBC with a staggering 17.4 million annual boardings.
But Burnaby has three routes on the list, including the 49 at number two with 9.3 million boardings each year, followed by the 16 at number six with 7.9 million boardings and the 95 B Line at number 10 with 6.8 million boardings.
Burnaby/New Westminster ranked number 4 on a list of the top seven growth in annual bus boardings, with a 5.5-per-cent jump from 2017 to 2018.
On the top-10 list of busiest SkyTrain stations, Metrotown station was number two with 8.2 million annual boardings, but topped the list with a 19.7-per-cent increase from 2017 to 2018.
Key findings for the overall TransLink system include:
- Boardings: + 7.1 per cent system-wide (the biggest-ever annual increase)
- Bus: + 8 per cent
- SeaBus: + 6 per cent
- SkyTrain: + 5.7 per cent
- West Coast Express:+7 per cent
- HandyDART: + 5.8 per cent
