The Regional District of Nanaimo’s BC Transit services will be expanded in 2026 with a total of 7,000 additional annual service hours set to be implemented with the winter schedule change-over.

Starting Jan. 4, an additional 4,000 annual service hours and three expansion vehicles will be added into the RDN’s conventional transit system to support Route 1 – Nanaimo Rapid Line and Route 40 – VIU Express. Implementing additional service efforts on these routes falls in line with the RDN’s Transit Redevelopment Strategy, which was developed in 2022 and aims to improve the region’s conventional transit services.

An additional 3,000 annual service hours will also be added to the handyDART service. Of that, 2,000 hours will be allocated to weekends and a new holiday service. The remaining 1,000

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