Home Traffic LANGFORD TRAFFIC: Gas leak Feb 16 on Goldstream Ave

LANGFORD TRAFFIC: Gas leak Feb 16 on Goldstream Ave

Repairs in week of Feb 20-24 may cause traffic interruption

goldstream ave, closure
Closure of Goldstream Ave between Peatt Rd and Bryn Maur Rd due to gas leak in the area, Feb 16, 2023. [City of Langford Engineering]
BC 2024 Provincial Election news analysis

Thursday February 16, 2023 | LANGFORD, BC [This incident was resolved by 6:30 pm | Last update February 18, 2023]

by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends


A gas leak has caused the closure of Goldstream Avenue between Peatt Road and Bryn Maur Road, starting at 4:15 pm today.

City of Langford Engineering says the road will remain closed until further notice. Langford Fire and FortistBC are on scene.

Traffic delays are to be expected. Traffic control will be on-site directing traffic.

goldstream, gas leak
Closure of Goldstream Ave between Peatt Rd and Bryn Maur Rd due to gas leak in the area, Feb 16, 2023. [City of Langford Engineering]

Customer impact:

Update on February 17: A spokesperson for FortisBC says that the work to repair the natural gas line was completed by 6:30 pm yesterday.

So the gas service to about 30 local customers was offline for about 2 hours and 15 minutes. People may have been worried about safety but FortisBC told Island Social Trends that “there was no danger to the public”.

jdf emerg, kit

Goldstream Avenue is a busy commercial strip in downtown Langford, but there are also residential customers beyond the main avenue.

Preventable:

There is CRD water main upgrade work happening along Goldstream Avenue this year; that work is presently in the location near where the gas line damage happened.

goldstream ave, sign, mall
The first block of Goldstream Ave west of Veterans Memorial Parkway, facing west. [Jan 12, 2023 / Island Social Trends]

FortisBC says the sort of third-party damage that happened to the impacted natural gas line is “preventable”.

langford, traffic
mapleline

===== OTHER TRAFFIC NEWS:

ISLAND SOCIAL TRENDS – CURRENT NEWS – TRAFFIC PAGE | DRIVE BC WEBCAM

ISLAND SOCIAL TRENDSLANGFORD TRAFFIC ARCHIVE 2019 to 2022

LANGFORD TRAFFIC: Alouette roundabout curb repair (Feb 16, 2023)

LANGFORD TRAFFIC: Water main work for a month on Goldstream near Veterans Memorial Pkwy (Jan 12, 2023)

LANGFORD TRAFFIC: Langford Parkway Jan 11 & 12 (Jan 10, 2023)

Hwy 1 two-car crash caused by prohibited driver (Jan 10, 2023)

LANGFORD TRAFFIC: West Shore Pkwy delays on Jan 10 (Jan 9, 2023)

LANGFORD TRAFFIC: Hwy 1 closed briefly due to 2-vehicle MVI (Jan 6, 2023)

LANGFORD TRAFFIC: Test pits on Leigh Rd Jan 3, 4 and 6 (Dec 30, 2022 )

dumont tirecraft, winter road safety

===== ABOUT ISLAND SOCIAL TRENDS:

Island Social Trends is a local and regional news service in the west shore of south Vancouver Island. Editor Mary P Brooke has been reporting in detail on Langford traffic since 2017.

More broadly, this journalism service has been operating since 2008 in the west shore: first as MapleLine Magazine 2008-2010, then Sooke Voice News 2011-2013, then West Shore Voice News 2014-2020, then emerging fully online mid-2020 at islandsocialtrends.ca

ist, main
Your subscription supports independent journalism in the local and regional area of South Vancouver Island. Free ENews or Premium subscription.

===== TRAFFIC UPDATES:

The Island Social Trends Traffic page posts regular updates, and shows local live snapshots of the Drive BC live webcam.

ARCHIVES: TRANSPORTATION | VANCOUVER ISLAND | LANGFORD TRAFFIC ARCHIVE 2019 to 2022

===== SUBSCRIBE TO ISLAND SOCIAL TRENDS:

Get the free Island Social Trends ENews … sign up here | Sign up as a Premium subscriber