Cowichan Valley Transit Future Action Plan

The amount of busses and trips needs to be increased. It’s not increased in the 20 or so years since public transit started for the valley.

More busses needed desperately

More busses are needed to and from victoria for students.

service to hospital and cowichan commons is good

saturday service to victoria is good

More morning links to the Cowichan Commuter to Victoria

Need more a.m. routes (e.g. #7) that get you to the Commuter (#66) to Victoria during the week, for work and medical appointments

Integrated cycling infrastructure

Current transit planning could be improved significantly by including an integration and improvement of regional bicycle infrastructure.

A bus would be helpful as Saltair is completely skipped. We have to drive to Ladysmith or Chemainus. 3 a day would be plenty -

Saltair

To create more bus stop and routes

We need a bus stop at Panorama ridge @TC Hwy for the routes between Chemainus and Ladysmith. Also we need a bus between Ladysmith/Chemainus and Walmart , with bus stops : at Cowichan Exhibition, Chemainus industrial zone, Russel Farm market and North Cowichan Municipality Hall

Improve Connection to BC Ferries at Mill Bay

The current schedule does not meet up well with the ferry schedule. The bus quite often will arrive in time for a ferry departure but leaves before anyone arriving can make it up the hill to the bus stop. It would also be good to coordinate with the bus in Brentwood making it possible to ride the bus to the airport or Swartz Bay ferry.

Better use of Nova LFS Suburban bus

Introduce midday weekdays and Sundays service on route 44 and change routing to follow the 66 or could follow 44 routing. Reduce fares on commuter routes.