Last updated on Mar 31, 2025 - 1:11 pm
Notice: Upcoming fare changes as of April 1, 2025. Details here
For trip planning, including the new winter schedule, visit bctransit.com/nanaimo
Adverse Weather Routing
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 public, bus routes are detoured 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 becomes available.
Please visit this webpage for the latest bus route information and impacts to services.
1 Nanaimo Rapid Line Downtown
1 Nanaimo Rapid Line Woodgrove
to Downtown
to Woodgrove
6 Harewood
to Downtown
to VIU
Bus Stop Closure - Route 6 Inbound (to downtown) - Beginning Friday, December 6, 2024, the bus stop located on Seventh St. will be closed for approx. 6 months. Please use the temporary stop on Seventh St. at Georgia Avenue.
Bus stop Closure Map
7 Cinnabar / Downtown
to Downtown
to Cinnabar
Bus Stop Closure - As of February 3, 2025, until further notice, Haliburton Street will be closed from Finlayson Street to Crace Street. Please use alternative stop located on Irwin Street at Esplanade.
Bus Stop Closure Map
40 VIU Express
to Downtown
to Woodgrove
Detour Notice - As of January 2, 2025, until further notice, Route 40 Downtown (Inbound) will detour down Wallace Street to the Downtown Exchange. Bastion Street will be closed due to road work.
Detour Map
70 Nanaimo - Cowichan Express
to Cowichan
to Nanaimo Downtown
- RDN transit service, including the Route 70 Nanaimo Cowichan Express (NCX) will not be affected by the Cowichan Valley Regional Transit System service suspension.
- Customers using the Route 70 NCX are advised that there will be no local fixed-route service within the Cowichan Valley, and no ability to travel to and from Victoria.
72 Downtown
72 Country Club
to Downtown
to Country Club
98 Qualicum Beach
Route 98