Is there a bus near my property?

What the answer means

The nearest stop

The report measures a straight line from the lot's middle to the nearest stop on either schedule. Within 1 km it gives the stop's name, distance, routes and departures, the busiest stop within 500 m when that's another one, and how many stops are within 500 m; from 1 to 25 km it names the nearest; past 25 km it says there's none.

Departures, not buses

Departures are counted from the schedule for one week: each bus or train leaving the stop counts once, and the stop where a trip ends is left out. A stop served on a few days a week says which days. Each provider's busiest of the three weeks after the schedules were read is counted, so a holiday doesn't count.

Straight line, not the walk

The distance is a straight line. The walk can be far longer around a gully, a highway or a fenced subdivision, and a rural stop may have no sidewalk or shoulder. Walk it yourself, after dark too if you'd use it then.

What isn't counted

Only the two providers' fixed-route schedules. handyDART and other on-request services, school buses, health connections buses, community and First Nations buses, private shuttles, intercity coaches and ferries aren't on them, so a place with no stop may still have a bus.

Service changes

Routes and timetables change with the seasons and each year's budget, and a small town's route may run only on a few days. Check the current timetable before you count on a route.

What it means for a buyer

For a commute or a household without a car, check the first and last departures as well as how many there are, and the route on a Sunday. BC Transit, TransLink or the local government can say whether a route is planned or under review.

Stops and departures are counted by us from the schedules BC Transit and TransLink publish, read 2026-10-11; distances are straight lines. Confirm with BC Transit or TransLink before you buy or build.

Source: BC Transit schedules (GTFS), read 2026-10-11 (BC Transit Open Data Terms of Use); TransLink schedules (GTFS), read 2026-10-11 (TransLink GTFS Terms of Use).

By place

The 203 of BC's 319 places where BC Transit or TransLink schedules a stop, listed by name: the stops in each, the routes that stop there and the departures from its stops in one week.

Counted by us from each provider's schedule (GTFS) read 2026-10-11, for its busiest of the three weeks after that, so a holiday doesn't count. One bus is counted at every stop it leaves in the place, and the stop where a trip ends is left out, so departures measure how much service stops there, not how many buses run. Stops are placed in the 2021 census boundaries; the 329 outside every area page's boundary aren't counted.