UBC Loop

UBC Loop
A 99 B-Line bus in the UBC Loop
Location	University of British Columbia BC, Canada
Coordinates	49°16′6″N 123°14′52″W / 49.26833°N 123.24778°WCoordinates: 49°16′6″N 123°14′52″W / 49.26833°N 123.24778°W
Owned by	TransLink

UBC Loop is a major public transit exchange point in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It serves mainly students, staff, and faculty of the University of British Columbia (UBC). The loop is part of the TransLink system and currently contains two temporary bus loops: one for trolley buses and one for diesel buses (the north bus loop). These temporary loops, which have been in use since 2003, replaced the old bus loop to make room for a new underground bus loop.

The new underground bus loop was slated to be built beside the Student Union Building, on the site of a small mound called "The Grassy Knoll". The Grassy Knoll is planned to be removed for that purpose, a plan that is unpopular with a number of UBC students. Several students were arrested after a protest in support of the knoll was shut down by the police in April 2008.

On October 27, 2009, the university announced in an open letter that because Translink was no longer committing $10 million toward the $50 million underground loop project, a surface loop would be built instead.^[1]

On July 9, 2014, it was announced that due to construction of the new UBC Aquatic Centre starting on MacInnes Field, pedestrian and cyclist access to the bus loop would be restricted, and several stops would be temporarily moved. It is estimated the construction will be completed in 2016.^[2]

Routes

The following routes terminate at UBC Loop.^[3] Routes highlighted in green are express/limited-stop.

North bus loop

Due to construction adjacent to the bus loop, assignments have been shifted, and some bays moved onto Wesbrook Mall.

(Adjacent to Wesbrook Mall north of University Blvd)

Bay	Route	Destination	Notes
1a	480	Bridgeport Station	Weekdays only Routes to/from (Bridgeport Station) Limited stops in Vancouver
1	258	West Vancouver Marine at 25th St.	Weekday PM peaks only - limited number of departures, final departure at 5:08pm Operates only while UBC is in winter session
2	44	Downtown Waterfront Station	Limited stops between UBC and Burrard and 2nd Avenue Weekdays only, final departure at 7:45pm Service to Waterfront Station
3	84	VCC–Clark Station	Limited stops between UBC and 4th Avenue at Fir
4		All lines unloading only
5			Layover area
6	99 B-Line	Commercial–Broadway Station	Frequent service during the rush hours Some trips continue to Boundary & 1st Ave
7	49	Metrotown Station	All weekday peak and half of the weekday daytime trips serve UBC (early morning, late night, and weekend trips terminate at Dunbar Loop)
8	43	Joyce Station	Weekdays only, final departure at 7:32pm
9	41	Joyce Station	All weekday daytime trips serve UBC, most early morning, evening and weekend trips short turn at 41st and Crown
10	33	29th Avenue Station
11	25	Brentwood Station	Late Night trips short turn at King Edward at Granville
15	C18	West Mall
	C19	Alma	*via Spanish Banks
	C20	Marine Drive	*via Totem Park

Trolley bus loop

(on University Blvd west of Wesbrook Mall)

Bay	Route	Destination	Notes
12	4	Powell Eton at Renfrew	Evening trips to Cambie at Hastings only; route between Eton at Renfrew and Downtown is operated by 209 Upper Lynn Valley / Downtown Early morning trips to/from Blanca Loop
13	14	Hastings	Operates to Kootenay Loop
14	9	Boundary Boundary Loop Commercial–Broadway Station	Weekday peak hours only Operates only when UBC is in winter session
	N17	Downtown Howe at Dunsmuir	Night Bus

See also

• List of bus routes in Metro Vancouver

References

1. "Open Letter to the UBC Vancouver Community" (PDF). University of British Columbia. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
2. http://parking.ubc.ca/events-news/ubc-bus-loop-renovation-summer-2014-%E2%80%93-2016
3. "UBC Loop Map". TransLink. Retrieved 29 August 2015.

External links

• Map of UBC Loop (PDF)