Shoppers in Port Coquitlam's Dominion Triangle will soon see new bus stops built as part of transit changes for the Evergreen Line to Coquitlam.
This month, PoCo city council voted to spend $17,500 to pay for half of the costs of the 16 new stops; the balance will come from Coast Mountain Bus Company.
The city's funding will come from the road and drainage reserve, said Kristen Meersman, PoCo's director of engineering and public works.
The wheelchair-accessible stops are expected to be in place before Dec. 19 when the bus service changes begin.
Under the Northeast Section Area Transit Plan, which was finalized last year, TransLink will eliminate or restructure redundant bus routes in the Tri-Cities such as the 97 B-Line, 160, 169 and 190.
Port Coquitlam will get an all-day bus to feed into the Evergreen Line — running every 15 minutes, Mayor Greg Moore said at last week's city council meeting — as well as an expanded and direct service to the Dominion Triangle (a modified C37).
Moore said the Tri-Cities hasn't had any more bus hours since 2009 — when the provincial government changed the TransLink governance model — despite the region growing the size of Burnaby since then.
No date has been set for the opening of the Evergreen Line; however, the rapid transit is expected to open before Christmas.
