Coast Mountain Bus Company route 211 'Seymour / Phibbs Exchange / Burrard Station'

211 Seymour/Phibbs Exchange/ Burrard Station
Nova Bus LFS – 9631 on route 211 Seymour on layover at Burrard Station.
Service Area	North Vancouver Vancouver
Termini	Panorama Drive at Naughton Avenue* Phibbs Exchange Burrard Station**
Operations	Burnaby Transit Centre
Vehicles	Nova Bus LFS
Branches	211 Seymour 211 Seymour via Dollarton*** 211 Phibbs Exchange 211 Burrard Station** School Special!
* Some trips terminate or start at Banbury Road & Gallant Avenue ** Daytime service *** Select eastbound AM peak hour trips ! PM School Special trip starting from Mt. Seymour Parkway & Lytton Street

211 Seymour/Phibbs Exchange/Burrard Station is a bus route operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Route Details

This is an east-west route in North Vancouver connecting Deep Cove and Phibbs Exchange via Mount Seymour Parkway. Midday trips continue from Phibbs Exchange across the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge to Burrard Station. From April to September on weekend/holiday evenings, there is extra service between Deep Cove and Phibbs Exchange.

Eastbound trips depart from Burrard Station heading west on Dunsmuir Street, north on Thurlow Street, east on W. Pender Street, north on Homer Street, east on W. Cordova Street becoming Powell Street and Dundas Street, then north on N. Nanaimo Street becoming McGill Street, merging onto Highway 1 and across the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge, taking the Main Street onto Main Street, north on Mountain Highway, and east on Oxford Street to Phibbs Exchange. Continuing from Phibbs Exchange, the route heads west on Oxford Street, south on Orwell Street, west on Main Street, north on Mountain Highway, east on Keith Road becoming Mount Seymour Parkway, south on Fairway Drive, east on Dollar Road, north on N. Dollarton Highway becoming Deep Cove Road, and south on Panorama Drive to the Deep Cove terminus at Panorama Drive & Naughton Avenue.

Westbound trips depart from Panorama Drive & Naughton Avenue heading south on Panorama Drive, east on Naughton Avenue, north on Banbury Road, west on Galiant Avenue becoming Deep Cove Road and N. Dollarton Highway, west on Dollar Road, north on Fairway Drive, west on Mount Seymour Parkway becoming Keith Road, south on Mountain Highway, east on Oxford Street to Phibbs Exchange. Continuing from Phibbs Exchange, the route heads east on Oxford Street, north on Orwell Street to the access road onto Highway 1 heading south and across the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge, taking the McGill Street exit and heading west on McGill Street, south on N. Nanaimo Street, west on Dundas Street becoming Powell Street, south on Main Street, west on E. Pender Street, south on Howe Street, west on Dunsmuir Street to Burrard Station.

Most trips daily around mid-morning to mid-afternoon travel to Vancouver and trips around early morning and late afternoon to late evening daily terminate at Phibbs Exchange. Some eastbound trips terminate and westbound trips start at Banbury Road & Gallant Avenue. Eastbound trips route by continuing south on Panorama Drive, east on Naughton Avenue, then north on Banbury Road.

There are three school special trips on this route. In the afternoon, one trip begins at Mount Seymour Parkway & Lytton Street and goes to Panorama Drive at Naughton Avenue, with no changes in routing. An additional afternoon trip starts from Fairway Drive & Dollar Road with no changes in routing, terminating at Phibbs Exchange. In the morning, one trip starting from Phibbs Exchange services the Capilano University area going via the regular route until Keith Road, where trips head north on Lillooet Road, east on Purcell Way to the turnaround, then return heading west on Purcell Way, south on Lillooet Road, then east on Keith Road where it continues on the regular routing to Deep Cove.

During AM peak hours, some eastbound trips go via Dollarton Highway. Of these trips, one starts from Burrard Station and the remaining trips start from Phibbs Exchange. These trips go via the regular route to Phibbs Exchange, south on Orwell Street, east on Main Street becoming Dollarton Highway, north on Old Dollarton Road, north on Riverside Drive, and east on Mount Seymour Parkway, where it continues on the regular routing to Deep Cove.

211 Stopping Procedures

Pick-up and drop-off service at all stops.

Stop Accessibility Bus Connections Notes Panorama Drive & Naughton Avenue 212 Local service between Panorama Drive & Naughton Avenue and the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge McGill Street & N. Renfrew Street 4 209 210 214 Dundas Street & N. Garden Drive (westbound) Dundas Street & N. Nanaimo Street (eastbound) 4 7 209 210 214 Powell Street & Commercial Drive 4 7 209 210 214 Main Street & Powell Street (westbound) E. Cordova Street & Main Street (eastbound) 3 4 7 8 209 210 214 N8 E. Pender Street & Main Street 3 4 7 8 19 22 209 210 N8 N19 Westbound trips only W. Pender Street & Carrall Street 4 7 19 22 209 210 N19 Westbound trips only W. Pender Street & Abbott Street 4 7 19 22 50 209 210 N19 Westbound trips only Local service between W. Pender Street & Homer Street and Burrard Station Burrard Station (Bay 2) R5 2 5 22 32 44 209 210 214 240 241 246 247 250 250A 253 254 257 N22 N24

Points of Interest

• Phibbs Exchange (Bay 5 – Seymour) (Bay 6 – Burrard Station)
• Ron Andrews Rec Centre
• Parkgate Shopping Centre
• Dollar Shopping Centre
• Deep Cove

To Burrard Station:

• Hastings Park
• Victoria Square
• Granville Station
• Pacific Centre
• Burrard Station (Bay 2)
• Bentall Centre
• Royal Centre

History

• Circa 1950 - Portion of the current route was introduced as Lynnmour–Seymour which operated from Ferry Wharf (now Lonsdale Quay) to Lynnmour.
• October 1953 - Prior route is modified as Keith–Seymour–Hastings. Service revised to go from Ferry Wharf to either Lynnmour or Kootenay Loop. This also makes up parts of the current routes 232 Grouse Mountain/Phibbs Exchange and 28 Joyce Station/Phibbs Exchange
• December 1955 - Route renamed Keith–Hastings.
• January 1964 - Route renamed 94 Seymour. Service went from Esplanade at Lonsdale to Seymour Terminal (Seymour Boulevard at Fern) via Keith Road.
• March 1967 - Service discontinued. Portions of the route along Keith Road are adapted to the new 89 Queens/92 Keith which operated from Cleveland Dam to Kootenay Loop along Lonsdale Avenue.
• October 1973 - Off-peak service introduced between Deep Cove (Banbury at Gallant) and Phibbs exchange as 211 Seymour. Another route, the 911 Seymour FastBUS, is introduced for peak-hour service between Deep Cove and Downtown Vancouver (Hornby at Smithe).
• May 1975 - Downtown terminus moved to Haro–Smithe Connector between Thurlow and Burrard Streets.
• February 1976 - From Mt. Seymour Parkway, buses now route via Fairway Drive to get to Dollarton Highway.
• April 1981 - Downtown routing revised to take Pender Street; service along Main Street and Hastings Street discontinued
• November 1986 - Downtown terminus extended to Burrard Station from Dunsmuir & Hornby
• September 1997 - Service rerouted to operate along the entire length of Mount Seymour Parkway instead of routing through the Windsor Park area, which is replaced by a reroute of the 215; select trips to interline with the 239 at Phibbs Exchange; morning peak service revised to operate as 290
• September 2003 - Evening peak hour shoulder service increased from every hour to every 30 minutes from Phibbs Exchange to Deep Cove
• June 2013 - Powell Street Upgrades: Seymour routing detoured from Homer & Pender via Homer, Hastings, Clark, then regular routing; Vancouver-bound service from Powell & Clark via Clark, Hastings, Howe, then regular route to Burrard Station
• August 2014 - Completion of Powell Street Upgrades; regular routing restored
• September 2016 - North Vancouver Transit Centre closed down, operations moved to Burnaby Transit Centre
• April 2020 - Westbound trips going beyond Phibbs Exchange renamed from 211 Vancouver to 211 Burrard Station
• April 2021 - Introduction of additional summer seasonal service on weekend/holiday evenings between Phibbs Exchange and Deep Cove
• September 2022 - Westbound AM peak hour service reduced from every 7–8 minutes to every 15 minutes. Mid-morning weekday westbound frequency increased from every 30 minutes to every 15 minutes. Introduction of an AM peak hour eastbound trip starting from Burrard Station going via Dollarton Highway
• October 2022 - Introduction of an AM school tripper starting from Phibbs Exchange to Deep Cove servicing Lillooet Road and Purcell Way
• April 2023 - Three PM peak hour southbound trips revised to travel the full distance to Burrard Station instead of terminating at Phibbs Exchange
• July 24, 2023 - Phibbs Exchange upgrades: Terminus moved onto street-side exchange on Orwell Street
• August 7, 2023 - Phibbs Exchange upgrades: Bay relocated from Bay 9 (EB Oxford NS Orwell) to Bay 5 (NB Orwell NS Oxford) to improve transfer connections
• October 16, 2023 - Introduction of a school special trip from Fairway Drive & Dollar Road to Phibbs Exchange
• April 2024 - Discontinuation of suburban stopping procedures. Service revised to pick-up and drop-off at all designated stops on the express portion in Vancouver instead of doing pick-up only towards Deep Cove and drop-off only towards Burrard Station. AM peak hour limited service trips via Dollarton Highway revised to run as 211 Seymour via Dollarton for clarity

References

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Station – Blanca Loop – Boundary Loop – Burrard Station – Commercial–Broadway Station – Dunbar Loop – Joyce Station – Knight Street–Marine Drive – Kootenay Loop – Main Street Station – Marine Drive Station – Marpole Loop – Nanaimo Station – Stanley Park Loop – UBC Exchange – Waterfront Station Burnaby & New West 22nd Street Station – Braid Station – Brentwood Station – Edmonds Station – Lougheed Station – New Westminster Station – Production Way Station – Metrotown Station – SFU Exchange – Sperling Station Tri-Cities Burquitlam Station – Coquitlam Central Station – Moody Centre Station – Port Coquitlam Station Richmond Bridgeport Station – Richmond–Brighouse Station – Steveston Exchange North Shore Capilano University – Lonsdale Quay – Lynn Valley Centre – Park Royal – Phibbs Exchange Pitt Meadows & Maple Ridge Haney Place – Maple Meadows Station – Pitt Meadows Station South of Fraser Carvolth Exchange – Guildford Exchange – Ladner Exchange – Langley Centre – Newton Exchange – Scott 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