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Originally Posted by dpogue
It might have a bigger impact than you'd imagine. Up to 50% of the people boarding the 99 B-Line aren't UBC students, but work between Commercial and Arbutus. By starting the buses at Arbutus, you've potentially up to doubled effective capacity per bus. Traffic along Broadway also tends to be worse between Commercial and Arbutus, so by avoiding that section each bus can complete a single run faster. The route is also shorter, so you need fewer buses on the road even just to maintain existing frequencies (which could probably be increased slightly from 2 minutes).
I would guess extending Millennium Line to Arbutus could free up somewhere between 20% and 30% of the 99 B-Line buses, possibly more. Also important to remember that the Evergreen Line will be bringing more students in on transit when it opens.
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Absolutely, I don't mean to diminish the great benefits a line to Arbutus will have. But in the end, we do need a SkyTrain all the way to UBC, and with a phased approach I'm not confident that it will happen anytime soon.
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