Show me a map of where your city runs articulated (accordion) buses

[mhays]

One of Seattle's outlying counties started running 24(?) double-deckers recently.

Downtown Seattle has too many buses on surface streets, despite the Downtown Transit Tunnel serving a couple dozen routes, Third Ave being a bus-only spine at rush hour, and the Second/Fourth couplet being a second spine. Double-deckers are a smart idea to simply cram more buses in. This will be especially helpful when the tunnel goes all-rail.

(This being SSP and me being me, I have to clarify that Seattle has two Downtown transit tunnels...one for buses and light rail, and the other being a deep bypass tunnel for Amtrak, commuter rail, and freight built a century ago.)

[mthd]

Originally Posted by fflint

San Francisco has two different fleets of articulated buses--130 diesel articulated buses and 73 electrified articulated trolleybuses. Articulated buses generally run on the city's busiest corridors.

To the best of my knowledge, articulated buses serve following lines, including L (limited) and X (express) service:

9 San Bruno, 9L
14 Mission*, 14L*, 14X*
30 Stockton*, 30X*
38 Geary, 38L, 38AX, 38BX
41 Union* (rush hours only)
47 Van Ness
49 Van Ness-Mission*
71 Haight-Noriega, 71L
NX Judah Express (rush hours only)
90 Owl (overnight only)
91 Owl (overnight only)
L Owl (overnight only)
N Owl (overnight only)

*Electrified line

here are the basic routes of the daytime buses. no owls and no nx.

[goodthings]

GREATER TORONTO AREA:

Toronto:



ZERO articulated buses so far, but they are planning to purchase...
153 articulated local buses by 2015

Planned (faded red):
7 Bathurst
25 Don Mills
29 Dufferin
36 Finch West
116 Morningside
85A Sheppard East - Rouge Hill

York Region:

NO articulated local buses
57 articulated BRT buses

Photo by Snuffy of Flickr




Year-round (dark blue):
Viva Blue (ALL buses that run along this route are articulated)
Viva Blue A (ALL buses that run along this route are articulated)

During school year (faded blue):
Viva Purple

Brampton:

NO articulated local buses
20 articulated BRT buses

Official Photo of Brampton Transit's Facebook Page




Current (dark red):
501 Zum Queen
501A Zum Queen - 407

Planned (faded red):
502 Zum Main
511 Zum Steeles (BRT line to launch in September 2012)

Mississauga:

45 articulated local buses
22 articulated BRT buses

Local Bus before the change of branding to MiWay:
Photo by dj.surf.lfs of Flickr

Mississauga Transit 0880 by dj.surf.lfs, on Flickr

Express Bus:
Photo by Henry Lo




7 days a week (Orange):
1 Dundas - Ridgeway (ALL buses that run along this route are articulated)
1C Dundas - Collegeway (ALL buses that run along this route are articulated)
26 Burnhamthorpe (ALL buses that use run along route are articulated)

Weekdays only (Brown):
5 Dixie - Cardiff (ALL buses that run along this route are articulated)
110 University Express (ALL scheduled buses that run along this route are articulated, ALL backup buses are articulated too)

Weekends only (Olive Green):
19 Hurontario (ALL buses that run along this route are articulated)
19A Hurontario - Britannia (ALL buses that run along this route are articulated)
19C Hurontario - Heartland (ALL buses that run along this route are articulated)

Rush Hours Only (Dark Blue), note: all of these routes and route branches run during rush hours only as well:
5B Dixie - Meyerside (mislabelled as brown)
70 Keaton
71 Sheridan - Subway (the lone bus that runs along this route is articulated)
82 Financial
101 Dundas Express (overlapped with 1 Dundas hence cannot be seen)
109 Meadowvale Express
201 Dundas (overlapped with 1C Dundas hence cannot be seen)

Seasonal (Purple):
88 Wonderland (the lone scheduled bus that runs along this route is articulated, ALL backup buses are articulated too)

Deallocated due to drop in ridership (Pink):
51 Tomken - Cardiff
51A Tomken - Meyerside

In some runs but these routes are now cancelled effective July 3, 2012 and their reincarnated versions use regular-sized buses (not shown in map):
27 Matheson (Now 43 Matheson - Argentia)
89 Meadowvale - Subway (Now 87 Meadowvale - Skymark)

[dchan]

There are several lines that use articulated buses in NYC, but the only ones that I can remember are the M15 running on 2nd Ave and the Q44 running on Main Street in Queens.

[Swede]

I tried doing one for Stockholm, but I couldn't find the info on-line, so instead here's a map with just the lines I remember taking articulated buses on myself:

/I need a new picture host.

[Gordo]

Originally Posted by HowardL

When I was in São Paulo last December, I saw a few double articulated buses (three sections). That place is nutsy busy so they were completely packed.

That's pretty common in Brazil and Colombia where they use special boarding stations for BRT. Curitiba has had double artics for 30 years on all of their trunk routes:


Source: Wikipedia

[natiboy]

The only ones I know of in Cincinnati:

Route 43: Downtown to Reading via Reading Road
Route 78: Downtown to Tri-County Mall via Vine Street

[Cirrus]

^
That's a pretty nice-looking bus stop.

[PLANSIT]

[volguus zildrohar]

It is. I'm guessing that's a major transfer point. There's major bus transfer location here in Center City that I've given some thought to in terms of its configuration. I may have to post that and see what folks here think.

[natiboy]

Originally Posted by Cirrus

^
That's a pretty nice-looking bus stop.

That's the Government Square bus hub right next to Fountain Square. It's the busiest transit hub in the city. The streetcar will go right by here as well once it's completed.