Translink 480 UBC/Richmond-Brighouse Station

Besides the crowds of passengers getting off here, it’s a nice station.
My view of this station, is as a visitor to Canada, who visits friends down in Richmond. If your not a fast walker, when your train pulls into this last stop, stand back and the crowd rush down the stairs. It’s a nice, open station.

This express between Richmond and UBC is probably the bus I ride the most these days. It can get pretty crammed in the morning because nearly all the students who live in Richmond take this bus. Don’t expect to get picked up by the first bus or have much room once you are picked up after about 8:15 at the 70^th Avenue stop. I feel like ridership has increased dramatically on the 480 after they shut down the 98 B-​Line. That led to some trouble in the first few weeks afterwards as Translink tried to fine-​tune things. In fact, they ended up pressing a lot of the old 98 buses into service as 480s.
That said, it’s the quickest, easiest way to get between Marpole (or Richmond) and UBC (or Kerrisdale). As long as there aren’t too many people jammed on the bus and traffic is not ridiculous on 41^st through Kerrisdale (as it sometimes is) I can get from Marpole to UBC in 20 minutes. Not too shabby.
More buses more often would, as always, be nice; especially during rush hour. I wish they would extend the hours a little bit in the evenings, too, so I’m not stuck with a slower route if I have a particularly late engagement on campus.