Bus and Rapid Transit routes you've been on...

[lmtengs]

This thread is similar to the lists of ferries and ferry routes people have sailed, but instead it's for buses. ALL buses you've been on go here, including T-link, BCTransit, Greyhound/Pacificoach/Charter trips/ etc...
If you want, you can even include the bright yellow school-buses on your lists

SeaBuses go in the "ferries you've been on" thread, Skytrains/LRTs/Subways/Monorails go here, and trains, including the West Coast Express, go in the 'Trains I've been on" thread. If the proposed gondola up to SFU goes through, and this thread is still active by then, you can mention it here.

EDIT: Streetcars go here too!


I'll start this off...


TransLink Buses I've been on...

*791 to Braid Skytrain Station/Haney Place
*701 to Coquitlam Central/Haney Place
*257 Horseshoe Bay Express
*253 Caulfield
*C47 Alouette

Non-Translink buses:

*Vancouver Airport Long Term Parking Lot Bus
*various parking lot buses
*Prince Rupert Airport Bus
*Bus from Days Inn Park South to Disneyland

Charters:

*Universal Coach from my school to Kelowna and back
*Charter from Montréal's Trudeau Airport to Québec City and back
*Universal Coach from my school to Whistler and back (3 times)
*Various charters around the Québec City area
*many field trips with school groups.....

Rapid Transit:

*Canada Line from Waterfront to both YVR and Richmond/Brighouse
*Millennium Line Commercial Drive to Waterfront (I have not been as far as VCC-Clarke yet)
*Expo Line King George-Waterfront
*Disneyland Monorail

Streetcars:
*The Olympic Line Streetcar

[FerryDude2012]

Translink routes I have been on(all routes have been travelled in both directions by me):
Surrey:
321 Newton Exchange/White Rock Ctr/Surrey Central Station
323 Newton Exchange/Surrey Central Station
324 Newton Exchange/Surrey Central Station
301 Richmond-Brighouse Station/Newton Exchange Express
312 Scott Road Station/Scottsdale
316 Surrey Central Station/Scottsdale
319 Newton Exchange/Scottsdale/Scott Road Station
320 Surrey Central Station/Langley Center/Fleetwood
335 Fleetwood/Surrey Central Station
340 Scottsdale/Newton Exchange(discontinued portion)/22nd Street Station/Cloverdale/Guildford
318 Ladner Exchange/Scottsdale (now C76)
322 Newton Exchange/Scottsdale (now C75)
351 Crescent Beach/Bridgeport Station/Vancouver
356 Cranley/White Rock Centre (now C53)
357 Crescent Beach/White Rock Centre (discontinued)
358 Seaside (now C52)
341 Langley Center/Guildford
332 Guildford/Surrey Central Station
501 Surrey Central Station/Langley Center
502 Aldergrove/Langley Center/Surrey Central Station
804 School Special
ALL SURREY/DELTA COMMUNITY SHUTTLE ROUTES

Richmond/South Delta:
All Community Shuttle routes
601 Vancouver/South Delta
620 Tsawwassen Ferry/Bridgeport Station
403 Three Road/Richmond Centre (before Bridgeport Station)
410 Railway/22nd Street Station
301 Richmond/Newton Exchange
402 Two Road/Richmond- Brighouse
98 B-Line Richmond Centre/Burrard Station

Vancouver:
1 Beach/Burrard Station (discontinued)
2 Burrard Station/MacDonald-16th Ave
3 Main/Downtown
4 Powell/UBC
5 Robson/Downtown
6 Davie/Downtown
7 Dunbar/Nanaimo Station
8 Fraser/Downtown
9 Alma/Broadway/Granville
10 Hastings/Granville
15 Cambie/Downtown
16 Arbutus/29th Ave Station
17 UBC/Oak via Downtown
20 Victoria/Downtown
22 Knight/MacDonald (To Dunbar Loop)
41 UBC/Joyce Station
43 UBC/Joyce Station Express
44 UBC/Downtown
99 B-Line UBC/Broadway-Commercial
135 SFU/Burrard Station

West Vancouver Blue Bus:
250/250A Horseshoe Bay/Dundarave/Vancouver
251 Queens/Vancouver
252 Inglewood/Vancouver
253 Caulifield/Vancouver
254 British Properties/Vancouver
255 Dundarave/Capilano U.
257 Horseshoe Bay/Vancouver Express


North Vancouver:
210 Upper Lynn Valley/Vancouver
211 Seymour/Vancouver
212 Deep Cove/Phibbs Exchange
228 Lynn Valley/Lonsdale Quay
229 Westlynn/Phibbs Exchange/Lonsdale Quay
230 Upper Lonsdale/Lonsdale Quay
236 Grouse Mountain/Lonsdale Quay
239 Phibbs Exchange/Capilano University/Park Royal
240 15th Street/Vancouver

Burnaby/New Westminster/Coquitlam:
112 Edmonds Station/Lougheed Station
116 Edmonds Station/Metrotown Station
123 New West Station/Brentwood Station
160 PoCo Station/Vancouver via Barnet Hwy

BC Transit:
All Powell River Regular Transit Routes (1,2 and 3)
Victoria:
70,72,73 Swartz Bay/Downtown (Express, via Fifth, via West Sidney)
11 Uplands/UVic
14 Vic General/UVic
50 Langford/Downtown
25 Maplewood/Admirals Walk
61 Sooke/Downtown
Whister and Valley Express (WAVE)
1,2,5,6

Skytrains/Streetcars:
Expo Line (Waterfront-King George) 20 times
Millenium Line (Waterfront-VCC Clark) 3 times
Canada Line (Richmond Brighouse and YVR to Downtown) 29 times
Olympic Streetcar (Olympic Village-Granville Island) 2 times

Coach Lines:
PCL (Vancouver-Victoria)
Malaspina Coach Lines (Vancouver-Powell River)

-LIST WILL EXPAND IN THE FUTURE-

[Low Light Mike]

For Nanaimo, during the heavy-snow and ice winter of 2008/09, I used transit quite a bit to get to/from work.
- Regional District of Nanaimo routes 8/9 to get me from home to work, and back again.

For days of fun ferry-riding from Departure Bay, I use route 2 to get me from home to the ferry terminal.
- I'm doing that tomorrow !


For an different kind of alarm clock, I sometimes use Route 2A:
- the bus turns on an intersection right next to my home. So I hear the acceleration sound.
- 2 morning buses that I use to tell the time, as I lie in bed (for those days when I don't need to be at work until 8:00am). 1st bus at 6:35am, and then 2nd bus at 6:54am. By the time that I hear the 2nd bus go by, I'd better be out of bed !


Translink:
- I just did the #257 this past week, on a weekday, and it was full for both morning and afternoon.
- I did the #17 from downtown Vancouver to UBC and return again. The return from UBC was at 4:00pm, and included some school-girls in skimpy school-girl outfits, who got-on somewhere along W.Broadway. There must be a fetish-factory or a private-school somewhere in the area.

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Skytrain:
- I rode the Expo Line during early 1986, when it was first opened. Me and some school friends rode it from downtown to New Westminster and back again, the day after we had attended a Canucks/Oilers game.

- I rode the restricted-access car a few times during Expo, between the main fairground and Canada Pavilion.


....and of course I also rode the monorail at Expo-86.

[FerryDude2012]

Question for Luke:
Re: "250 Horseshoe Bay Express" there is no such thing.
There's the 250 Horseshoe Bay/Vancouver that travels via Georgia, Lions Gate Bridge, Marine Drive through Park Royal, Ambleside,Dundarave,West Bay and Pt. Atkinson all the way to Horseshoe Bay.
And theres the 257 Horseshoe Bay/Vancouver EXPRESS that travels via Georgia, Lions Gate Bridge, Marine Drive to Park Royal, then via 15th Street to the Upper Levels Highway to Horseshoe Bay.

[Kahloke]

Kitsap Transit
90/33 - Bainbridge Island Ferry-Poulsbo-Silverdale

King County Metro
3/4 - Judkins Park, Downtown Seattle (3rd Ave), East Queen Anne
13 - Downtown Seattle (3rd Ave), Queen Anne, Seattle Pacific University
21/22/56 - Downtown Seattle (1st Ave) to West Seattle & beyond
71/72/73 - Downtown Seattle (bus/LR tunnel) to U District & beyond
190 - Downtown Seattle (2nd & 4th Aves), SODO (busway) express to Sea Tac Airport (this route no longer operates because of the light rail train)
240 - Bellevue TC-Renton
RapidRide A-Line - Tukwila Station-Federal Way TC

Sound Transit
550 - Bellevue-Seattle
595 - Gig Harbor-Seattle
590, 592, 594 - Tacoma Dome-Seattle

BC Transit-Victoria (on double-decker busses)
70 - Swartz Bay-Downtown Express
73 - Swartz Bay-Downtown via West Sidney

London (on double-decker busses)
11 - Fleet Street
22 - Sloane Square to Picadilly Circus
52 - Knightsbridge (Harrod's) to Notting Hill Gate
521 - British Museum to London Bridge Station

Martha's Vineyard Transit Authority
1 - Vineyard Haven to Edgartown
13 - Edgartown to Oak Bluffs

WMTA - Washington, DC
5A - Rosslyn Metro to Dulles

Spokane Transit
66 - Cheney/EWU-Spokane

AC Transit (Alameda County)
89 - San Leandro Local

MUNI (San Francisco)
5R - Market Street to Golden Gate Park
28 - Golden Gate Park to Golden Gate Bridge - than onto Fisherman's Wharf


Outside of regular transit busses, I've done the following coach line busses:

Greyhound: I-90 Corridor - Issaquah to Ellensburg, and once to Spokane (this was during my early college years, before I had a car)

Evan Evans Tours: we did a coach tour of SE England with this company the last time I was there

National Express: London Victoria Coach Station to Heathrow Airport

Island Coach Lines: I used to take this from Victoria to Mill Bay when I attended Shawnigan Lake School and I was coming back from leave. I would take The Clipper from Seattle to Victoria, and then the bus up to Mill Bay. The school would send someone to pick me up there. I don't think Island Coach Lines exists anymore. Does Greyhound now provide that service?

LIGHT RAIL/SUBWAYS:
London Underground (Tube)
Barcelona's Underground (Metro)
Boston's "T" - MBTA
Chicago's "L"
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
MAX Light Rail (Portland)
LINK Light Rail (Seattle)
Monorail - Seattle Center to Westlake
Metrorail Blue and Orange Lines (Washington DC)
Skytrain (Vancouver)

STREETCARS
San Francisco's Cable Cars
Waterfront Trolley (Seattle)
Portland streetcar

[lmtengs]

Sept 24, 2010 22:12:43 GMT -8 FerryDude2012 said:

Question for Luke:
Re: "250 Horseshoe Bay Express" there is no such thing.
There's the 250 Horseshoe Bay/Vancouver that travels via Georgia, Lions Gate Bridge, Marine Drive through Park Royal, Ambleside,Dundarave,West Bay and Pt. Atkinson all the way to Horseshoe Bay.
And theres the 257 Horseshoe Bay/Vancouver EXPRESS that travels via Georgia, Lions Gate Bridge, Marine Drive to Park Royal, then via 15th Street to the Upper Levels Highway to Horseshoe Bay.

OOPS. Thanks
I made the same type of mistake on facebook yesterday...
But yeah, it's the 257 Express that I took then.

[Mike C]

I take pride in the fact that I've been on every conventional bus, rail and marine transit route in Vancouver! ;D

Victoria
3, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 50, 54, 61, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 81
Pacific Coach Lines, Swartz Bay to Victoria

Comox Valley
1, 3, 4, 6, 11

Nanaimo
1, 2, 3, 44, 6, 8, 9, 90

Whistler
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 77
Perimeter Coach (now defunct) Vancouver to Whistler

Seattle
Monorail, and that weird little subway in the airport

Los Angeles/Long Beach
Metro Blue

New York City
Subway Trains 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, R, T, W
Bus Routes M41, M43

San Francisco
MUNI F, L and M trains
BART Daly City->Embarcadero


Overseas?

London
Underground: Picadilly, District, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City, Northern and Victoria lines

Paris
Metro: 2, 4, 6 and 14 trains

Nice
Kickass streetcar!

[BreannaF]

Yeah, riding the buses has been a hobby of mine since I was old enough to get on the bus by myself. I'm probably going to miss some here, since I have often taken a local bus in a city just to see the place as the locals might see it.

Seattle Area
At one point, many years ago (like the early 1980's), I had been on every Metro Transit route, every Community Transit route, every Everett Transit route, and most of Pierce Transit. (Sound Transit was not an entity then, but I do see a lot of those routes that were once Metro routes.) I have been on about half of the current Sound Transit, though, including both Sounders & Link.

Portland Area

• I have been on every mile of all of Tri-Met (including MAX light rail and WES rail).
  
• The only C-Tran (Vancouver WA) routes I'm missing is a couple of the commuter runs that only go once or a few trips per day.

Rest of Washington

• I had been on every mile of Spokane Transit, as it existed 1985-1989.
  
• All of Pullman Transit (I attended WSU).
  
• Kitsap Transit: Once RT on the 90.
  
• Pacific Transit: Astroia to Ilwaco, Ilwaco to Long Beach.
  
• Whatcom Transit: Several local routes in Bellingham over the last decade.
  
• Jefferson Transit: I spent most of a day riding around on buses a couple of days before a job interview in Port Townsend last year.

Rest of Oregon

• All of the routes of the following, at one point or another in the past:
  
• Umpqua Transit (Roseburg)
  
• Sunset Transportation District (Astoria & North Coast)
  
• Salem-Keizer Transit (Cherriots!)
  
  
• A major chunk of the routes on Lane Transit District (Eugene)
  
  
• At least once on: Albany Transit, Corvallis Transit, Sandy Transit, Wilsonville SMART.

Other Places
Vancouver: Original SkyTrain, 98-B, 99-B, 10, (many times each) and a handful of routes once.

Trains/Subways in Chicago, New York, Washington, SFO.

Amtrak Coast Starlight, Empire Builder, Cascades.

Buses in a handful of cities -- I have taken one somewhere in a lot of places just to say I have and to look around.

Greyhound is a dog of a way to travel, but I have spent many hours going to a lot of places on it, usually just for fun. That includes the 15-day pass I used to circle the US a few months after finishing high school. What a blast at the time! What a horror it would be now!

And, yes, I have likely missed a lot. (I never even thought about the Monorail or the SeaTac subway, for example.) But a cool trip down memory lane.....

[Blisswood]

Victoria: After our original suburban expansion Jan. 2, 1981, I managed to get on every route in the system except the little offshoot of the 61 Sooke to Whiffen Spit. I did try on Jan. 2, 2001 (20th anniversary), to get a suburban route from downtown on a GMC bus, which started it all (we didn't diversify our fleet until circa 1988 with GM's Classics)...but even during the PM rush hour the GMCs were outnumbered.
I've pretty much given up on trying to "get" every route in the city.

[Jess]

Here are all the Transit Bus Routes I've Been on:

Translink:
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 41, 44, 49, 50, 68, 80, 84, 99, 100, 101, 104, 106, 110, 112, 116, 119, 123, 128, 129, 130, 133, 134, 136, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 169, 179, 180, 183, 188, 189, 191, 210, 211, 212, 214, 222, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 236, 240, 241, 245, 246, 247, 249, 250, 253, 255, 257, 262, 301, 310, 311, 312, 314, 316, 319, 320, 321, 323, 324, 325, 326, 329, 335, 337, 340, 341, 342, 345, 350, 351, 352, 354, 361, 364, 375, 388, 391, 393, 394, 395, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 410, 412, 430, 480, 501, 502, 503, 509, 531, 555, 595, 601, 602, 603, 604, 606, 620, 640, 701, 749, 791, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6
Expo Line
Millennium Line
Canada Line
West Coast Express
Seabus

Discontinued Routes:
43, 70, 95, 96, 239



BC Transit:
Victoria:
2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 39, 50, 52, 53, 54, 70, 71, 72, 75, 81, 88
Fraser Valley:
1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 21, 22, 31, 33, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 66, 71
Nanaimo:
1, 5, 6, 11, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 70, 91
Whistler: 
5, 6, 7, 10, 20, 21, 30
Salt Spring Island:
2, 4
Sunshine Coast:
1, 2, 4, 90
Cowichan Valley:
44

Puget Sound:
King County Metro:
A Line, C Line, D Line, E Line, F Line, G Line, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 28, 36, 45, 48, 49, 70, 75, 118, 182, 124, 271, 372
Sound Transit: 
1 Line, T Line, 512, 513, 535, 550, 574, 594
Pierce Transit:
1, 3, 11, 28, 52, 63, 100, 101
Community Transit:
Swift Blue, Swift Green, 115, 116, 202, 415
Everett Transit:
2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 29
Kitsap Transit:
212, 332, 390

Toronto:
Toronto Transit Commission:
15, 29, 32, 40, 41, 47, 65, 75, 76, 86, 102, 112, 123, 320, 501, 505, 506, 510, 900, 935, 941, 996
Line 1
Line 2
Miway:
7, 20, 22, 61, 76, 107
Brampton Transit:
511
York Region Transit:
Viva Blue, Viva Orange, 4, 20
Hamilton Street Railway:
20, 2, 55, 44, 21, 10, 1, 
WeGo:
Green Line
GO Transit:
Lakeshore West
Niagara