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You can take the bus going to Capilano Suspension Bridge. It is best to take the bus especially during the peak season which is the summer time. There is not a lot of parking lots close to the park if you decided to drive your car. The time when we went there is September and thus, there is a lot of parking spaces for us across the street. The parking fee is $2.00 at the back of the Bridge House Restaurant.
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The bus is the cheapest and one of the most efficient ways of getting around Vancouver. You do not need a car in Vancouver. The bus can take you to all of the city's main attractions. Most visitors to Vancouver find its public transit service to be excellent and highly efficient. As a user myself, I can highly recommend it for getting around town.
Vancouver's bus system uses transfers. When you board a bus, you drop the exact change ($2.50 for adults, 1 zone) into a little machine by the bus driver. The bus driver pushes a button, and out pops a little credit-card sized paper swipe card with a magnetic strip. Instead of showing the bus driver the transfer when you board the bus, now you actually insert the transfer into the machine, and the machine determines if your transfer is still valid or not.
Transfers normally expire 90 minutes after you purchase them. This means that for 2 hours, you could hop on and off any bus, Skytrain, or SeaBus as many times as you'd like. Once the 2 hours run out, your transfer will no longer be valid, and if you want to board another bus, you'll have to pay another $2.50 fare.
Transfers are handy if you're doing a lot of bus transferring within a short period, however, if you're planning to spend all day taking buses, it might be cheaper to purchase an all-day pass at a 7-11. It currently costs $9.00 for a day pass.
With transfers, it doesn't matter what direction you travel in, but it does matter what *zone* you travel in. The Vancouver public transit system is divided into zones. They're kind of like concentric circles. The further out of the city centre you travel, the more you'll have to pay. Basically, Vancouver acts as one zone. Vancouver plus a neighbouring city, such as Burnaby, Richmond, North Vancouver, etc, acts as 2 zones. Vancouver, plus a neighbouring city, plus an even further neighbouring city acts as 3 zones. Basically, if you only pay bus fare for 1 zone, then your transfer is only good in that zone. Leave a Comment
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The buses in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland are a great system to get around on. In downtown Vancouver there are many so called "trolleybuses", those are the electric buses to keep the environment cleaner. There are of course regular buses too, but they all belong to the same transit system.
The fares for these buses are:
*From start of service to 6:30 p.m.
1 Zone $2.00 $1.50
2 Zone $3.00 $2.00
3 Zone $4.00 $3.00
*Weekdays after 6:30 pm and all day Sat., Sun., & holidays:
1, 2 or 3 Zones $2.00 $1.50
You can use the same ticket from the bus on the skytrain and on the seabus. One ticket is valid for 1 1/2 hours. So you can jump on any bus, the skytrain or seabus for as much as you want in 1 1/2 hour. You have to pay a little extra if you go for more zones then you originally paid for.
For more information and timetables go to: http://www.translink.bc.ca Leave a Comment
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OK, I may be the biggest bus travelling idiot there is but here is my story.... I got on the correct bus to go downtown...its all going good, no problems at all. It is cheap. easy and most of all very safe. I was told that once I get downtown that I should get off and remember where I got off. I thought, well that is odd, it is a transfer station, it should not be too hard to find again.... Well no one told me that there was no transfer station!! I am sitting on the bus thinking to myself, man is downtown ever big, when will we ever get to that station.... As we are leaving downtown, I sense trouble....why are we leaving the downtown core??? As the skyscrapers become smaller in the ever growning distance I finally clue in... So my tip of the day is that when you see the big buildings, get OFF the bus. hey cut me some slack, I come from a village of about a 1000 people....these things are not known to a girl like me:) Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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Intro
Bus service in Greater Vancouver is provided seven days a week, 18-20 hours per day, on most routes. Major bus routes operate every 10 minutes or better in peak periods, some as often as every 4 to 6 minutes. Most buses are lift equipped for wheelchairs and baby strollers and have external bike racks.
B-Line Routes
B-Line Routes offer fast, frequent and limited-stop service on major/busy routes. The buses on these routes run every 3 to 15 minutes. The B-Line buses are accordion-style buses and they provide easy access to wheelchairs and baby strollers. All B-Line buses also have bike racks.
There are three B-Line routes:
97 B-Line (Coquitlam/Lougheed Town Centre)
98 B-Line (Richmond-Airport-Vancouver)r /> 99 B-Line (UBC-Broadway/Commercial)
NightBus
NightBus is a limited service. It runs every 30 minutes, Monday to Saturday until 3am. The current night services connections are:
Downtown/West End
Downtown/UBC
Downtown/
Scott Road Station
Downtown/SFU
Shuttles
Community Shuttles are minibuses that service less hectic routes. They are lift equipped. Leave a Comment
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Getting around Vancouver is pretty easy. The public bus system spans most of the major road systems, although getting to remote locations is a bit tricky. Busses are generally named after the roads they go down, i.e., the #49 bus goes down 49th avenue, #4 goes down 4th avenue, etc. If you head downtown, you can catch busses to West Vancouver, or even the ferry terminal. Leave a Comment
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Bus service around the North Shore and lower Mainland is excellent. $2.50 and u should keep yor ticket on you if u travelling across zones cos same ticket no matter how many trsansfers u use and it last for about 2 hours from time of 1st purchase.
Oh, buses hav right of way here, as soon as they indicate, they can move into a lane and cars gotta allow them Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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It is incredibly easy to get around Vancouver using public transportation - most bus routes run along a street or avenue in a straight line, so all you need to do is figure out which intersection you want to get close to. Bus drivers are also good at pointing you in the right direction and letting you know when you should get off. The one thing I found slightly annoying was that buses don't always run on time, especially if there happens to be snow. But if you're not in a rush, this shouldn't be a problem.
If you plan on spending a few days in Vancouver, I'd recommend buying a 10-ticket pack (you can get them at Safeways, corner stores, drugstores, etc.; the 7-11 at the Vancouver airport sells them) to save a bit of money. There are three travel zones: downtown Vancouver is in Zone 1, the airport, Grouse Mountain and Capilano Suspension Bridge are in Zone 2, and the ferry terminal to Victoria is in Zone 3 - the further you go, the more you'll have to pay, except on weekends and in the evening, when travel zones don't apply. You can always get a Zone 1 pack ($19) and pay the difference as you get on the bus. To use your ticket, just stick it in the little machine next to the bus driver - you can also use them on the skytrain and seabus (you'll find validation machines at each station). Once your ticket is validated, you can travel wherever you want during 90 minutes.
It is quite easy to plan your trip using the trip planner available on the TransLink Website so don't bother renting a car, just get on the bus! Leave a Comment
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Although we mainly walked during my visit in Vancouver, we used the bus a couple of times when heading into downtown Vancouver. The fare to use the bus in zone 1 is $2.25 each way and the ticket is good for 90 minutes so you can also use it on the SeaBus to get to Grouse Mountain, Lynn Canyon, etc. or the SkyLink which we didn't use.
If you are planning on doing a lot of travel, you can purchase a 10 ticket booklet for $18 so individual rides cost only $1.80 or you can get a day pass for $8 which is also good on the SeaBus.
If you are paying on the bus, you need exact change and I believe that most buses only take coins even if you are paying for more than one person.
We only went outside zone 1 once during my visit, the bus ride to the ferry terminal for Victoria was in zone 3 and it cost $4.50 on the way over, $2.25 on the way back because it was off peak. Leave a Comment
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A very convenient service, although somewhat pricey, and the buses are rather old. They are very frequent, however. If you stay within the same 'zone', you pay $2.25, if you cross into another zone, you pay $3.25. Once you purchase a ticket it is good for unlimited transfers up to 90 min after purchase, including subway and Seabus. The most convenient routs are #4 and #17 to UBC museum and #236 to Grouse Mountain from Seabus terminal in North Vancouver. Leave a Comment
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