New handyDART facility opens in View Royal, set to host up to 100 buses

New handyDART facility opens in View Royal, set to host up to 100 buses

The $83.5 million facility is at Watkiss Way and Burnside Road

New $83.5M handyDART facility opens in View Royal

Just over five years after it was first announced, the new handyDART facility opened in View Royal on Friday. The project was first announced in December 2019 with a budget of $32 million, with the goal of strengthening transit services in the Victoria area for people with disabilities. Then, partway through the construction process, in October 2023, an additional $51 million investment was announced for the project to fully electrify the buildi…

New Victoria handyDART centre opens in View Royal   - BC Transit

Today, the Honourable Ravi Parmar, B.C. Minister of Forests, George Anderson, Parliamentary Secretary for Transit, Marianne Alto, Vice-Chair for the Victoria Regional Transit Commission, and Erinn Pinkerton, President and Chief Executive Officer for BC Transit, announced the opening of the new Victoria handyDART centre in View Royal. A joint investment of more than $83.5 million was made by the Government of Canada, Province of BC and the Victor…