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To answer the end part of your question though, the Next Bus times that appear are the scheduled times — real-time bus info will not be coming for the next little while. (A project has been scoped out to work on it, but it isn’t actually underway.)

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The bus stop re-numbering project started around 2006. The purpose of the bus stop re-numbering project was to have one unique bus stop number that can be used for all of our database/application systems. It was decided that the Bus Stop Management System (BSMS) would be the main system as this was where new bus stops were generated.

The first bus stop that was re-numbered starts at #50001 and the general direction that the re-numbering took place was starting from West to East (Vancouver to Langley/Tri Cities). Once all bus stops were re-numbered, any new bus stops (added anywhere in the Metro Vancouver area) was simply added subsequent to the last stop number. For example, if the last bus stop number that is stored in BSMS is #61890, then any new bus stops added anywhere in the Metro Vancouver area will be assigned with the number of #61891. The next newly added bus stop number will be #61892, and so forth. Please note that once the bus stop number is added to BSMS, the bus stop will always have that BSMS number regardless of its status (Proposed, Active, Cancelled) — the bus stop number will not be recycled.

So, there is no meaning behind the bus stop number — it is simply an unique number stored in our database that can link to other information such as bus routes, schedules, etc.

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I got to a point where I just bookmark my favourite stops to get around the sort order.

Here’s a question, how does a stop earn it’s five digit number. Is there meaning behind each number like a postal code?

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#20 WB starts at 54 Ave not at Marine Drive. But if you scroll through the list it eventually shows the Marine stop.

#8 starts at 41st apparently according to the m.translink.ca schedule.

Or the 41 or 43 at times supposedly have no buses stopping at Ash/Cambie? Basically there is no schedule time stop. Sometimes I’ve seen the Cambie stop listed after School Ave which makes it look like it is before Kingsway which of course it is not.

The biggest thing I’d love to see although it may not be possible. Right now if I text the next bus service. It gives a list of the 5 next buses scheduled to come. But it does not tell you exactly when the next bus is going to come or has it gone through already and I’ve missed it. Because a couple of times I’ve seen the bus go by at least 2 minutes before it was scheduled to. At the timing stops this doesn’t happen of course because the bus has to sit and wait.

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