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Article: Vancouver, British Columbia, Edges Closer to Replacing Some Buses with Rail.
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- August 3, 2003
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By Eric Pryne, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 3--RICHMOND, British Columbia--Carlos Balcarcel has no complaints about the 98-B, greater Vancouver's premier Bus Rapid Transit line.
The sales executive's daily bus ride from his south Vancouver home to his Richmond office used to take about 20 minutes. On the 98-B, he said, it usually takes just half that long.
"It's a lot faster," Balcarcel said one sunny afternoon as he waited to catch the bus home.
He didn't have to wait long. The 98-B buses run much more often than his old bus: every five or six minutes during peak periods, every seven or eight ...