Veterans’ week and Remembrance Day service in Cowichan Valley

BC Transit and the Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) are providing free transit service to Veterans and Armed Forces personnel in the Cowichan Valley Regional Transit System starting on November 4, 2022 in support of Veterans’ Week and Remembrance Day.

Free transit will be available, with appropriate identification, for veterans and Canadian Forces members on all scheduled routes and handyDART services from November 4 through to November 10. This will not include interregional routes 66, 70, 99 and 44.

On Remembrance Day, November 11, all scheduled routes and handyDART services will be free for all riders. Scheduled routes will run on a Sunday schedule and handyDART service will be running on a Saturday schedule. Please note that interregional routes, and local routes in Eagle Heights, Ladysmith, Youbou and Honeymoon Bay do not operate on November 11.

BC Transit supports those bus drivers who choose to stop their bus, if it is safe to do so, at 11 a.m. on November 11, to observe the traditional minute of silence in memory of those who gave their lives and service in times of war.

For more information on routes and schedules, please visit bctransit.com/cowichan-valley.

BC Transit communications
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