Many Broadway transit riders come in from suburbs: study
Posted April 12, 2013 9:43 am.
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LOWER MAINLAND (NEWS1130) – It’s another pull in the tug-of-war between Vancouver and Surrey over which city should get more rapid transit first.
A new study finds 40 per cent of riders on the busy Broadway Corridor actually come in from the suburbs.
The research was done for the UBC Alma Mater Society and shows where users of the university’s U-Pass program come from.
“The maps show great distribution in the city of Richmond, even as far away as White Rock, Langley, Maple Ridge, and on the North Shore as well,” says Tanner Bokor, Vice-President External of the UBC AMS.
Bokor says this shows improving rapid transit down the corridor is not only a City of Vancouver problem; it’s a regional issue. He adds it’s not just students and university employees who use transit, either.
“They’re also people who are tourists visiting campus, people who do not go to UBC all the way, and are getting off at various stops, who are your average workers, your businessmen, even just your regular homeowners and commuters.”
Bokor feels adding buses to thr route won’t help either, as he says ridership on the 99 B-line as reached a saturation point; if you add more coaches, you’ll just slow things down even more.
