UBC Loop

UBC Loop is a major public transit exchange point in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It mostly serves students, staff and faculty members of the University of British Columbia. 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 few students of UBC. Several students were arrested after a protest turned into a showdown with 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 this the $50 million underground loop project, a surface loop would be built instead.^[1]

Routes

North bus loop

Trolley bus loop

See also

• University of British Columbia
• University Endowment Lands
• 99 B-Line
• List of bus routes in Metro Vancouver

External links

• Map of UBC Loop (PDF)

References