99 B-Line

99 B-Line
A 99 B-Line bus
Overview
System	TransLink
Operator	Coast Mountain Bus Company
Began service	September 3, 1996
Route
Start	UBC Exchange
End	Commercial–Broadway station
Length	14.3 km (8.9 mi)[1]
Stops	13[2][3]
Service
Ridership	35,900 (avg. weekday 2023)[4]
Route map 99 B-Line highlighted in orange; limited service segment in red Show interactive map Show static map Legend UBC Exchange Allison Sasamat Alma / W 10th Macdonald Arbutus Granville Heather / Willow to YVR–Airport & Richmond–Brighouse Canada Line to Waterfront Cambie Broadway–City Hall Main Fraser Clark Millennium Line to VCC–Clark Expo Line to Waterfront Commercial–Broadway Expo Line to King George & Production Way–University Millennium Line to Lafarge Lake–Douglas Key Bus SkyTrain 99 B-Line Expo Line Entire route is Millennium Line in Fare Zone 1 Canada Line All stations are accessible This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram ← {{{previous_line}}}  {{{system_nav}}}  {{{next_line}}} →

The 99 B-Line is an express bus line with bus rapid transit elements in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It travels along Broadway, a major east–west thoroughfare, and connects the University of British Columbia (UBC) to Commercial–Broadway station on the SkyTrain system. It is operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company and funded by TransLink.

It is the first and the most popular of the B-Line routes in the regional system. The other B-Lines that followed are based on the 99 B-Line in terms of the use of articulated buses (which can carry 120 passengers) and frequent arrivals for buses. The waiting time for a bus during peak hours on a weekday is 1.5–3 minutes. All of the buses on this route are built by New Flyer Industries of Winnipeg, Manitoba. On average it takes 42 minutes to complete the entire route, or half an hour near the last runs at the end of the night.

The 99 B-Line is the busiest bus route in Canada and the United States,^[5][6][7] with a 2018 average weekday ridership of 55,900 passengers.^[1] This number is up from approximately 45,000 passengers per day in 2007.^[8] The COVID-19 pandemic lowered the ridership of the line; by 2022, it saw around 30,780 trips per weekday, about 54 percent of its peak levels of 57,240 in 2019.^[9]