Coast Mountain Bus Company route 14 'Hastings / Downtown / UBC'

14 Hastings/UBC
New Flyer E40LFR – 2137 on route 14 UBC heads south on the Granville Street Bridge.
Service Area	Vancouver University Endowment Lands
Termini	Kootenay Loop Homer Street at W. Pender Street* University of British Columbia
Operations	Vancouver Transit Centre
Vehicles	NFI E40LFR Nova Bus LFS ** Nova Bus LFS HEV **
Branches	14 Hastings 14 UBC 14 Downtown*
* Most evening trips terminate in downtown instead of at Kootenay Loop. Some terminate/start at Howe Street & Dunsmuir Street ** In the event of a route diversion or bus shortage

14 Hastings/UBC is a bus route operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Route Details

This is an east-west route connecting Kootenay Loop and the University of British Columbia via Downtown Vancouver, running primarily along Hastings Street and W. Broadway. Service runs daily every 15 minutes, increasing to every 10 minutes during peak hours. There is limited evening service between Downtown Vancouver and Kootenay Loop daily as most evening service runs between Downtown Vancouver and UBC only. It is one of over a dozen routes that form as part of Vancouver's trolleybus network.

Eastbound trips depart from the University of British Columbia heading east on University Boulevard becoming W. 10th Avenue, north on Alma Street, east on W. Broadway, north on Macdonald Street, east on W. 4th Avenue, south on Fir Street, east on W. 5th Avenue, north on Granville Street across the Granville Street Bridge and continuing north on Granville Street, and east on W. Hastings Street becoming E. Hastings Street to Kootenay Loop.

Westbound trips depart Kootenay Loop heading west on E. Hastings Street becoming W. Hastings Street, south on Granville Street and across the Granville Street Bridge, exiting by going on West Cloverleaf, west on W. 5th Avenue, north on Fir Street, west on W. 4th Avenue, south on Macdonald Street, west on W. Broadway, south on Alma Street, and west on W. 10th Avenue becoming University Boulevard to the University of British Columbia.

On Fridays, weekends/holidays, and days preceding holidays after 9 p.m., there is no service on Granville Street between the Granville Street Bridge and Hastings Street. Eastbound trips use Seymour Street and westbound trips use Howe Street.

Most evening trips departing from UBC terminate at Homer Street & W. Pender Street.

Select morning trips towards Kootenay Loop start at Granville Street & W. 10th Avenue and two early weekday morning trips towards Kootenay Loop start at Blanca Loop.

Points of Interest

• Kootenay Loop (Bay 5)
• Empire Field
• Hastings Park
• Pacific National Exhibition
• Playland
• Hastings Community Centre
• Chinatown
• Carnegie Community Centre
• Victory Square
• Granville Station
• Vancouver City Centre Station
• Pacific Centre
• Granville Loop Park
• Pacific Spirit Park
• University of British Columbia
• AMS Student Nest
• UBC Exchange (Bay 10)

History

Main article: Trolleybuses in Vancouver

The 14 was originally introduced in June 1955, being the last streetcar route to be transitioned to a trolleybus service or be discontinued. In 1968, trolleybus service was discontinued on the 14 route, which at the time ran as the 10 Tenth/14 Hastings, to provide consistent service to the University of British Columbia as there were no trolley wires out to UBC at the time. However, consistent trolleybus service returned to the 14 in 1983 after it was revised to no longer run as the 10 Tenth/14 Hastings and the 14 Hastings/Renfrew, and instead as the 14 Hastings/18 Arbutus.

In 1997 during another phase of trolleybus network realignments, the 14 was discontinued after the 10 Hastings Express/UBC was combined with the 14 to run as the 10 Hastings/UBC and the former Arbutus portion being merged with the 16 29th Avenue Station/Downtown to form the 16 29th Avenue Station/Arbutus. The 14 route number would not return until April 2011 when another trolleybus network realignment saw the breaking up of the 17 Oak/Downtown/UBC and the 10 Granville/Hastings routes.

Route History

Below is the history of the current iteration of the 8 route. For more details on the history of the former West End and Davie Street portions before April 2011, see 10 Granville/Downtown and 17 Oak/Downtown.

• April 2011 - Route re-introduced, replacing the UBC–Downtown portions of the 17 Oak/Downtown/UBC and the Downtown–Kootenay Loop portions of the 10 Granville/Hastings service along Hastings Street
• March 20, 2020 - Friday night "bingo run" trips cancelled due to low ridership related to the COVID-19 pandemic
• June 2020 - Broadway Subway construction: Routing revised to go from Granville Street Bridge via West Cloverleaf, W. 5th, Fir, W. 4th, Macdonald, Broadway in both directions; service on Broadway between Macdonald and Granville temporarily discontinued
• January 2022 - COVID-19 service adjustment: AM peak hour service reduced from every 10–12 minutes to every 12–15 minutes
• September 19, 2022 - Eastbound routing revised until further notice to go via Pender Street and bypass Hastings Street between Granville and Columbia due to tent city impeding trolleybuses from reaching the overhead wires. This is an extension of a temporary detour issued on August 13
• February 6, 2023 - Eastbound routing revised to return onto Hastings Street instead of using Pender and Columbia
• April 2023 - Western terminus revised to Blanca Loop from UBC due to construction on University Boulevard, with the exception of early morning trips as the 14 is the only early morning bus servicing UBC after the last N17 NightBus and before the first 99 B-Line and other UBC-bound services
• June 16, 2023 - Friday night "bingo run" trips removed from internal schedules and service discontinued
• September 2023 - Western terminus reverted to UBC following the completion of construction on University Boulevard. Blocks with early morning trips reverted to using trolleybuses
• March 4, 2024 - Long-term detour in downtown due to construction on the north end of the Granville Street Bridge
  • Eastbound via regular route to Granville Street Bridge, then north on Seymour Street off-ramp, west on Davie Street, and north on Granville Street
  • Westbound via regular route to Granville Street, then west on Davie Street, and south on Howe Street merging onto the Granville Street Bridge
• April 2024 - Weekday PM service reduced from every 10–12 minutes to every 12–15 minutes

Friday Night "Bingo Run"

See also: 7 Downtown bingo run
On Friday nights, extra "bingo run" trips ran on the 14, primarily in the western portion of the route between UBC and downtown. In total, there were three runs and all three used diesel buses.

The first run ran as block 97/022 and came off a 7 Downtown at Howe Street & Dunsmuir Street, where it would run as a 14 UBC. Upon arrival at UBC, it would run not in service back to Howe Street & Dunsmuir Street and repeated this pattern for two more trips. These trips would depart from Howe Street & Dunsmuir Street and merge onto the Granville Street Bridge, where it would continue on the normal 14 UBC routing.

The second run ran as block 98/022 and ran as a 14 Hastings from Seymour Street & Davie Street. From here, trips would continue on Seymour Street and then east on W. Hastings Street where it would continue on the normal 14 Hastings routing. Upon arrival at Kootenay Loop, it would run not in service back to Seymour Street & Davie Street and repeated this pattern for two more trips.

The third run ran as block 99/022 and started from UBC Exchange in the trolley loop as a 14 To Granville. From UBC, trips would travel on the regular 14 routing until W. Broadway & Macdonald Street. Due to Broadway Subway construction, 14s continued on Macdonald Street to bypass construction due to the removal of overhead wires on Broadway. However, the bingo runs continued on the pre-construction routing by heading east on W. Broadway and ran express non-stop on Broadway and turned north on Granville Street where it terminated at Granville Street & W. 7th Avenue. However, as the bingo runs were cancelled before the change in the 14's routing on Broadway, the 99/022 bingo run never had the opportunity to use this non-stop routing.

Upon arrival at Granville Street & W. 7th Avenue, trips would run not in service back to UBC and repeat this pattern for two more trips. Upon completion of the two trips, the run would do two one-way trips as a 14 UBC from Howe Street & Dunsmuir Street.

All three runs were cancelled effective March 20, 2020 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on ridership. While the runs remained on the schedule internally, they were cancelled every Friday as the extra service was not required. The runs were removed from internal schedules for June 16, 2023 and was discontinued for the June 2023 sheet that started on June 26.

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