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Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) is the contract operator for bus transit services in Metro Vancouver and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority, known locally as TransLink, the entity responsible for public transit in the region.
SkyTrain system map. The Vancouver SkyTrain is a three-line urban mass transit system in the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, managed by TransLink.The Expo Line was built for the Expo 86 World's Fair; [1] the Millennium Line opened in 2002, [2] followed by the Canada Line in 2009, which was built for the 2010 Winter Olympics. [3]
Regional districts came into being via an order of government in 1965 with the enactment of amendments to the Municipal Act. [1] Until the creation of regional districts, the only local form of government in British Columbia were incorporated municipalities, and services in areas outside municipal boundaries had to be sought from the province or through improvement districts.
The Greater Vancouver Water District and the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District were established in 1924 and 1956 respectively. [9] The Government of British Columbia incorporated a regional district for this western portion of the Lower Mainland named the Regional District of Fraser-Burrard on 29 June 1967. [1]
A 99 B-Line bus at UBC Exchange. The internal campus street grid is mostly organized as a number of east–west roads intersecting a series of north–south malls. There are few through streets on campus as both Main Mall and University Boulevard are largely pedestrian streets, bisecting the campus in both the east–west and north–south directions.
The community of 375.55 square kilometres (145.00 sq mi) is the largest city by area in British Columbia. The municipality's southern boundary is the Canada–United States border. In Canada, it is bordered by the Township of Langley to the west, the City of Mission to the north, and the City of Chilliwack to the east.
British Columbia Highway 14, named the West Coast (Sooke) Highway is the southernmost numbered route in the province of British Columbia.An east–west highway on the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island in the Capital Regional District, it is sometimes known as the Juan de Fuca Highway, as well as Sooke Road, Sooke being one of the largest communities that the highway passes through.
Hastings Street is an east–west traffic corridor in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. [2] It used to be a part of the decommissioned Highway 7A . In the central business district of downtown Vancouver , it is known as West Hastings Street ; at Carrall Street it becomes East Hastings Street and runs eastwards ...