A BC Transit bus that will connect Hope to the rest of the Lower Mainland will start next Tuesday, Sept. 5, according to a press release from BC Transit.
The service will run Mondays to Saturdays with a weekday and Saturday schedule, and will stop in Agassiz, Seabird Island First Nations, Park Street and Third Avenue, Kawkawa Lake and Union Bar roads, Flood Hope and School roads, Third Avenue and Wallace Street before heading back to Agassiz.
The service will have four runs. On weekdays, it leaves Agassiz at 6 and 7:38 a.m. in the mornings and 3:26 and 5:05 p.m. in the afternoons. The bus is scheduled to arrive in Hope in half an hour.
It will spend 21 minutes stopping in various neighbourhoods of Hope before heading back to Agassiz.
On Saturdays, the bus will leave later and return earlier. It leaves Agassiz at 8 and 9:38 a.m., and 2:26 and 4:10 p.m.
“A number of our systems have different schedules on weekends than they do weekdays, so people have different travel habits on the weekend sometimes than they do weekdays and use the service for different reasons,” said communications manager Jonathon Dyck. “We will look at that and, based on public feedback, we set the weekday schedule … and the Saturday schedule.”
A single trip costs $2.50 and a DayPASS will cost $5. Passengers can buy 10 tickets at once for $22.50 or a monthly pass for $44 or $35 for adults and students/seniors respectively.