RDN Transit Redevelopment Strategy

As part of the Regional District of Nanaimo’s Transit Redevelopment Strategy (TRS), this survey is seeking your feedback on proposed changes being considered for the RDN Transit’s routes, services and infrastructure. The service and infrastructure proposals are based on analysis, best practices and feedback heard from transit customers, staff and citizens in the project’s first round of engagement in summer 2021.

We heard you that your top priorities are a transit system that is: 

• more direct, 
• more frequent, and 
• easy to use.

The proposed system changes show how routes could be restructured along with service and infrastructure added, to better connect residents across the region. Note that the proposed revised network uses new route numbers and names so that in future the most important and frequent routes in the system (Primary Routes 1, 2, 3 and 9) will appear first, followed by the Neighbourhood routes serving local areas and Connector routes.

We want to hear your thoughts on whether these proposed changes will improve your connectivity to major destinations in the RDN and provide better and more frequent connections to where you want to go. If not, what changes do we need to consider to better accommodate your transit needs?

We are seeking your feedback on the following:

• The Primary Routes that will become the system’s new Rapid and Frequent lines connecting the highest ridership destinations.
• Neighbourhood and Connector Routes for the Central, South and North areas of the RDN that will connect local and interregional areas into the Primary Routes.
• Priorities for improving transit infrastructure, such as improvements to stops and shelters as well as transit priority measures to make service fast and reliable.

Proposed timelines shown for phases of changes are approximate and are pending confirmation of local and provincial funding availability each year.

The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete and all responses will be kept confidential and anonymous, though if you’d like to be entered to win one of ten (10) one-month passes, please leave your name and email at the end of the survey.

The survey will be open until 11:59pm on November 3, 2021. 

Thank you for your time and participation! Let's get started.

Collection Notice - The personal information you post may be collected by the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) under sections 26(c) and 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for the purposes of engaging and consulting with the public. The RDN is using a Bang the Table hosted site that stores the information in Canada, but Bang the Table staff located in the US can access your profile information to provide assistance at your request.  To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include any personal information including phone numbers and email addresses in the body of your comments. Also, do not share personal information about others. If you have any questions about the collection of your personal information, please contact Erica Beauchamp, Superintendent of Transit Planning & Scheduling, at 6300 Hammond Bay Rd, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N2 or at ebeauchamp@rdn.bc.ca or by calling 250-390-6517.

This survey is part of the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) Transit Redevelopment Strategy (TRS) and is meant to gather ideas and feedback from the community on current use and perceptions of, and how to improve RDN transit. The TRS project will deliver a clear priority plan for improving transit services over the next five (5) years in the RDN. 

No matter where you live in the RDN and whether you take the bus or not, we're excited to hear from you to work with your ideas and to improve transit overall. While this survey is primarily intended for RDN residents, others are welcome to respond to the survey. 

The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete and all responses will be kept confidential and anonymous. The survey will be open until 11:59pm on July 16, 2021. 

Thank you for your time and participation! Let's get started.

*All references to transit in this survey are about RDN Transit*

Collection Notice - The personal information you post may be collected by the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) under sections 26(c) and 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for the purposes of engaging and consulting with the public. The RDN is using a Bang the Table hosted site that stores the information in Canada, but Bang the Table staff located in the US can access your profile information to provide assistance at your request.  To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include any personal information including phone numbers and email addresses in the body of your comments. Also, do not share personal information about others. If you have any questions about the collection of your personal information, please contact Erica Beauchamp, Superintendent of Transit Planning & Scheduling, at 6300 Hammond Bay Rd, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N2 or at ebeauchamp@rdn.bc.ca or by calling 250-390-6517.