September 2016 Changes

Photos of Translink bus operations on the September long weekend.
September 2016 saw significant bus changes in the Vancouver area, as the North Vancouver Transit Center shut down, and the new Hamilton Transit Center opened. The shuffling of routes associated with this resulted in significant changes to bus assignments. All North Vancouver routes were moved to the Burnaby garage, which meant that local Burnaby/New Westminster routes (106, 110, 112, 116, 123, 125, 129, 134, 136, 144) were shuffled to the Hamilton yard. After seven years of nothing but Novabus LFS's, these routes suddenly saw New Flyer D40LF's dating back to the late 1990's. At the same time, Hamilton took routes C98, 104, 410 and 430 from Richmond, and routes 101, 128 and 155 from Port Coquitlam. Nova hybrids now run these routes, replacing the Richmond D40LF's and the Poco C40LFR's and XN40's.
Set to David Bowie's "Changes"

[@SHK-kx2sv]

This Song was from "Shrek" I think.

[@ehtransit1306]

No more/limited bus service in North Vancouver is what we will see eventually. Right?

[@ETBMichael]

No, there's actually plans to increase some service in North Vancouver.

[@ruizhao3882]

What happen to old north vancouver depot new flyer d40lf Buses

[@ehtransit1306]

But what if the 2nd narrows bridge gets closed temporarily? Burnaby's buses wouldn't be able to access North Vancouver. Does Translink have a back up plan? What could they possibly do?

[@damienmerasty891]

Lions Gate Bridge?

[@chuckcamarcefilmsstudios3801]

They would use half the Blue Bus Fleet (West Vancouver Transit)

[@ehtransit1306]

and then most north Vancouver routes will be community shuttles on weekends and holidays. Perhaps there will be no transit service on x-mas instead of reduced.

[@ETBMichael]

Again, no. The loads are too heavy on the North Van routes to change to shuttles on weekends. And there will be the same level of service on Christmas as there has been in previous years. I have no clue how anything on this video makes you think that bus service in North Vancouver would be eliminated.

[@johnnyc132]

1:24 why an Surrey 1998 bus on 106?

[@ETBMichael]

It's a Hamilton bus now. There was a large shuffling of buses on the labour day weekend with the closure of North Vancouver and the opening of Hamilton. Most of the older D40LF's were consolidated at the new Hamilton depot; given the massive amount of buses moved, not all the prefixes have been updated yet.

[@johnnyc132]

I saw an RR Orion V doing either 502 or 503

[@ruizhao3882]

Surrey S9231 Orion V Bus in Richmond?

[@ETBMichael]

Yes, route 301 runs from Newton in Surrey to Richmond-Brighouse Station and is supplied with buses out of the Surrey Depot.