Transit Service Alerts

During adverse weather, many factors can impact bus routes such as accidents, detours and changing road conditions. To ensure the safety of passengers, drivers and the general public, bus routes are changed as needed. Changes to routes can happen many times over the course of an adverse weather event and every effort is made to update transit users as information comes available. Please visit this webpage for the latest bus route information and impacts to services. These same updates are also shared on our X (formerly Twitter) feed at @RDN_Transit.

Please note: During adverse weather events where routes are heavily impacted and changing, defer to updates posted here on the transit service alerts webpage and not on the NextRide app which will not have the most current information.

SERVICE ALERT UPDATE

Front Street at Esplanade Stop Closure (near the Downtown Nanaimo Exchange)

Please note that the bus stop at Front and Esplanade is closed. To ensure consistency and improve traffic flow, all riders will be dropped-off within the main part of the exchange in bays A-G when arriving on an inbound 1, 5, 6, 7, 20, 30, 50, 70, or 78.

Front Street at Esplanade STOP CLOSURE

Seat Belt Implementation

The Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) has began installing seatbelts on all light-duty buses. This change is at the direction of BC Transit to standardize light-duty buses within the province. 

This change will affect, Routes 88, 97, 98 and, at times, 25.

B.C. Law requires passengers to wear seatbelts if they are provided in a vehicle.