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Transportation

Public Bus Transportation

  • The RDN delivers conventional bus and handyDART transportation services throughout our region in partnership with BC Transit, including within member municipalities of the City of Nanaimo, District of Lantzville, the City of Parksville and the Town of Qualicum Beach.
  • The RDN delivers 137,800 of service hours over 20 routes from Cedar to Deep Bay and 27,500 hours of handyDART service.
  • The RDN fleet consists of 74 buses - 55 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), 4 Community Buses and 15 handyDART buses.
  • We have over 3 million boardings annually.

Learn more about RDN Transit at rdn.bc.ca/regional-transit.

Roads and Bridges

  • Municipalities build and maintain roads and bridges within their boundaries.
  • The Province of BC, through the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, builds and maintains highways and all other roads, including in electoral areas in regional districts. Learn more here:
  • Regional districts are not responsible for any aspect of road building or maintenance within their boundaries.
  • Under transfer agreements, Transport Canada has ownership of airports but leases out their management, operation and development to bodies known as airport authorities or commissions. The RDN is home to the Nanaimo Airport, Qualicum Beach Airport and Nanaimo Harbour Water Aerodrome (operated by the Nanaimo Port Authority).

Ports

  • In the RDN, the Port of Nanaimo is one of 17 Canada Port Authorities (CPA) in the country established under the Canada Marine Act (CMA). CPAs are federally incorporated, autonomous, non-share corporations that operate independently from the federal government but within the rules of the CMA.

Photo: Port of Nanaimo


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