Traffic Alerts & Announcements


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BC Conservatives announce their shadow cabinet

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Wednesday November 20, 2024 | VICTORIA, BC Political news coverage by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends The BC Conservative shadow cabinet in...
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Eby’s fulsome NDP cabinet challenged by BC Conservatives but supported by BC Greens

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Wednesday November 20, 2024 | VICTORIA, BC Political analysis by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends A few days ago BC NDP Premier David Eby...
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Windstorm has travel impacts for Highway 14

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Wednesday November 20, 2024 | SOOKE, BC by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends Last night the impact of a 'bomb cyclone' storm with strong...
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Ravi Parmar rises to Minister of Forests and Deputy Government House Leader

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Wednesday November 20, 2024 | LANGFORD, BC Political analysis by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends On Monday November 18 Premier David Eby announced...
lisa beare, minister of education and child care

Education ministry now led by Lisa Beare

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Wednesday November 20, 2024 | VICTORIA, BC Political analysis by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends The new Minister of Education and Child Care is...
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Scheduled Traffic Interruptions

Langford

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Single-lane traffic in place on Jacklin Road (from Orono to Lequesne) from Nov 27, 2023 into summer 2025 during nearby apartment building construction. [Mary P Brooke / Island Social Trends]
    • Friday Oct 4 to end of October. Malahat summit repaving. 3.5 km stretch of Highway 1 near Goldstream from south of the Aspen Road intersection to just south of the recently completed Tunnel Hill washout repair site. In the evenings and overnight, during off-peak travel times only: 8 pm on Sundays to 5 am on Thursdays. Single-lane alternating traffic control from 10 pm to 5 am. Passage will be maintained through the area with anticipated delays as long as 20 minutes. [Info from BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure]
    • Monday November 4 to Friday November 8. Station Ave (761 Station Ave). Traffic delays, lane closed. 7 am to 4 pm. To accommodate roadworks in the road right-of-way.
    • Friday November 8. Bray Ave (Carlow rd to Rite Rd). Traffic delays, single lane alternating. 8 am to 3:30 pm.
    • Monday November 11. Temporary road closures for Remembrance Day, on Veterans Memorial Parkway, Station Avenue, and Goldstream Avenue. 9 am to 12 noon.
    • Friday November 15. Jenkins Ave and Glen Lake Road. Temporary road closure *at both intersections* and detour for sewer extension. 7 am to 5 pm. Residents and transit users will be allowed access.
    • LANGFORD TRAFFIC: News Archive (2019 to 2022)
    • All Langford Traffic Advisories

Colwood

    • Colwood – traffic notices by the City of Colwood
    • Monday October 30 to November 30. Metchosin Rd (from Royal Commons to Ryder Hesjedal Way). Traffic delays during watermain construction along the east side of Metchosin Rd. Daily 7 am to 5:30 pm.
    • Tuesday November 4. Metchosin Rd at Wishart Rd. Expect traffic delays due to lane closure. 9 am to 2 pm.
    • November 1 to mid-December. Veterans Memorial Parkway (from Allandale Rd to Brookside Rd, and Latoria Rd from VMP to Quarry St). Daily 7 am to 5 pm. Lane closures during BC Hydro work to expand and increase service capacity by installing underground ducts and structures.
    • November 12, 2024 to January 17, 2025. Tipton Road. Watermain upgrades, 7 amt to 5 pm daily, with occasional extended days and hours of operation as needed.

View Royal & Burnside

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Major road improvements to Charter Road in Sooke will be done during 2024. [District of Sooke]
    • Jan to Dec 2024. Charters Road construction, Mon to Fri (7 am to 7 pm), all year. Single lane traffic. | Update on May 27: Charters closed to through-traffic May 27 to mid-October 2024. | Charters Road spurs on Throup Road debate (June 22, 2024).
    • Tuesday September 24, 2024. Partial re-opening of Charters Road (from Highway 14). Link to come.
    • Saanich & Peninsula

    • September 15 to mid-October. Malahat summit repaving. 5.5 km stretch of Highway 1 from the Malahat summit viewpoint to Bamberton, as far north as Mill Bay Road. In the evenings and overnight, during off-peak travel times only: 8 pm on Sundays to 5 am on Thursdays. Single-lane alternating traffic control from 10 pm to 5 am. Passage will be maintained through the area with anticipated delays as long as 20 minutes. [Info from BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure]
    • Friday Oct 4 to end of October. Malahat summit repaving. 3.5 km stretch of Highway 1 near Goldstream from south of the Aspen Road intersection to just south of the recently completed Tunnel Hill washout repair site. In the evenings and overnight, during off-peak travel times only: 8 pm on Sundays to 5 am on Thursdays. Single-lane alternating traffic control from 10 pm to 5 am. Passage will be maintained through the area with anticipated delays as long as 20 minutes. [Info from BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure]

      Port Renfrew

      • No traffic notes at this time.

        HIGHWAYS – SAFETY

        • Remember to drive  safely.  Slow   down  in   construction  zones.