Bus service returns to Granville Mall

Bus service will begin a gradual return to Granville Mall next month.  Beginning Monday, December 14, the #50 False Creek South, which had been routed away from Granville during construction of Granville Mall and the Canada Line, will resume service on Granville Street northbound as far as Robson Street and southbound beginning at Nelson.

The northbound bus will turn right on Robson and then left on Seymour; the southbound bus will come up Howe Street from Cordova to Nelson, then turn left to Granville.

The re-route will stay in place until February 1, when all traffic will come off Granville Street for the month to create a pedestrian mall during the Olympics: the #50 will go back to using Seymour northbound and Howe southbound and then return to the December routing in March.

Also in March, work will begin on installing trolley overhead wires along Granville Street, so that trolley buses, which had been removed from Granville in April 2006, may resume service by the fall of 2010.