New transit routes launched; free New Years Eve transit service announced
BC Transit launched several transit improvements for the Victoria Regional Transit System just in time for the new year. This morning the first scheduled runs began for route #10 Jubilee / Dockyard, with service along Esquimalt Road and Bay Street between the NADEN base in Esquimalt and the Royal Jubilee Hospital, and route #15 UVic Express / Downtown Express, operating with limited stops between downtown Victoria and the UVic campus along Fort Street and Foul Bay Road. Special signage has been erected to differentiate the express routing and operation of the #15 route.
In addition to the newly introduced routes, BC Transit has released a New Years Eve extended service schedule for most of the routes serving metropolitan Victoria. And in keeping with the yearly tradition of helping to promote safe travel on the busy and festive evening, BC Transit is offering free rides system-wide after 6PM.
To stay up to date on the latest news and events related to the Victoria Regional Transit System, refer to the dedicated discussion thread on VibrantVictoria.ca’s discussion forum.
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Bernard
May 03, 2012 at 12:07 pmQuote: We've been saying all along that SNC's ties to Bombardier (maker of the light rail cars and technology) puts the rapid transitconsultant into a perceived conflict of interest position.
No the conflict is that SNC Lavalin builds LRTs and is not a transit consulting company. They recommended the project that would most likely bring them something to bid on and they have the inside track on all the information to make a bid
Coreyburger
May 03, 2012 at 2:53 pmQuote: And how long before our fantasy $1 billion LRT is up and running? 10 years? 20? The E&N makes a LOT more sense at least for the immediate future. :teacher:
Both require some sort of local funding. Neither of them have that secured right now. BC Transit and the CRD are working on local funding options for LRT right now. What is the ICF doing? (this isn't to slam the ICF, just to mention that one of these projects is moving on funding while the other isn't)
Bernard
May 03, 2012 at 3:40 pmThe cost to re-make the E&N line to usefully function as a serious transit option will not be cheap. Running a couple of trains each hour is not going to have any serious impact on traffic, for it to work it needs a lot of rebuilding and a lot of work done on all the level crossings and an extension through to Douglas street.
The E&N as a business should be focusing on where it can succeed the best and that is in the mid island.
G-Man
May 03, 2012 at 8:59 pmQuote: +1. The cart is so far ahead of the horse on this one I am not sure that poor mare can ever catch up.
Oh I would say funding for LRT is about 12 months out.
Nparker
May 03, 2012 at 9:24 pmQuote: Oh I would say funding for LRT is about 12 months out.
You really think so G? The Feds and the Province are going to fund $1 billion for LRT in Victoria in 2013? Even with a likely change in government here in BC next May, I just don't see this as priority for the Federal Conservatives, and I can't imagine the Province coming up with the full ticket price on their own, even if every riding on the Island goes to the
