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Langley Centre is an on-street bus exchange located in downtown Langley City , British Columbia, Canada. As part of the TransLink system, it serves the municipalities of Langley City and Langley Township with routes to Surrey , Maple Ridge , and White Rock , that provide connections to SkyTrain and the West Coast Express rail services for travel towards Vancouver .

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6-543: The exchange opened on October 31, 1975, and is located on the curb lanes at the intersection of Glover Road and Logan Avenue in Langley City. It is not separated from regular traffic and can accommodate regular-length diesel buses and smaller community shuttles. Beside the exchange is the Rainbow Mall, a small shopping complex. It is less than a kilometre from the main commercial centre of Langley City on Fraser Highway , and

12-399: A few kilometres from Langley's largest shopping mall, Willowbrook Shopping Centre . In 2022, an Expo Line extension from King George station to 203 Street in Langley City was approved with an estimated completion date of 2028. When completed, the new Langley City Centre SkyTrain station at 203 Street and Fraser Highway will replace Langley Centre bus exchange. As of September 2019,

18-693: Is at King George Boulevard and 98th Avenue in the Whalley Town Centre of Surrey, just south of the King George SkyTrain Station . From there, it passes through the mixed residential, commercial, and rural neighbourhoods of Green Timbers, Fleetwood , and Cloverdale . Leaving Surrey, the route bisects the City of Langley, before entering the more rural neighbourhoods of Murrayville , and Aldergrove in Langley Township. The eastern terminus

24-748: The Fraser River and the Fraser Valley , which are in turn named for the explorer Simon Fraser . The road was one of the first motor highways in British Columbia, being formed from portions of the Old Yale wagon road in the 1920s, and was known as the Inter-Provincial Highway but its importance as an east-west corridor was diminished with the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway in

30-626: The 1960s. Nonetheless, it remains an important thoroughfare. Running roughly parallel to the Trans-Canada Highway, it is often used as an alternative or feeder route for it. The Fraser Highway runs in a generally southeast-northwest direction, roughly paralleling the Trans Canada Highway to the north of it. It alternates back and forth between one lane each direction (total of 2 lanes) to two lanes each direction (total of 4 lanes) between rural and urban surroundings. Its western terminus

36-460: The following routes serve Langley Centre exchange: Fraser Highway Fraser Highway is a 38-kilometre-long (24 mi) major arterial road in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia . Connecting the cities of Surrey and Abbotsford , the highway formerly constituted a major portion of British Columbia Highway 1A until the latter was decommissioned in 2006. The highway is named for

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