Elliott Road reopens to public after seven month closure
WEST KELOWNA – The section of Elliott Road between Main Street and Dobbin will reopen to vehicle and pedestrian traffic Monday after being closed for more than seven months for construction of a new transit exchange.
Construction of the Westbank RapidBus transit exchange won't be completed until the end of the month and motorists are asked to obey traffic control instructions during the final stage of completion.
As part of the $44.5 million Kelowna RapidBus project designed to improve service, the Westbank exchange joins the Boucherie Mountain transit exchange already completed earlier this year.
The RapidBus service wlll feature exchanges at Okanagan College, Rutland, Queensway, South Pandosy, Boucherie Mountain and Westbank Centre and is scheduled to come online early 2015.
The project is the result of a partnership between Transport Canada, The B.C. Ministry of Transportation, City of Kelowna, District of West Kelowna, Westbank First Nation and B.C. Transit.
To contact the reporter for this story, email Adam Proskiw at aproskiw@infotelnews.ca or call 250-718-0428. To contact the editor, email mjones@infotelnews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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I thought I’d let you know of a minor correction in an otherwise well written story. This is the only story that I’ve seen of all the Okanagan media outlets (print or digital) that isn’t simply an entirely “regurgitated” press release.The final phase of the RapidBus project will be put into service on Aug. 31st, 2014, not in “early 2015” as indicated in your story. Information from the BC Transit website and public information “panels” indicates that all 9 RapidBus Stations and 3 RapidBus Exchanges will be put into service on that date, with exchange decommissioning at Stevens Road to follow and final “touch-ups” to the Queensway Exchange in September. Also, although BC Transit indicates there are six RapidBus Exchanges as part of the project, there are actually only four (Westbank Centre, Boucherie Mountain, Queensway and UBCO) as the RapidBus line does not stop at either of the Rutland, Okanagan College and South Pandosy transit exchanges (however, those exchanges are part of a so-called Frequent Transit Network designed to provide 15-minute peak and 30-minute non-peak connecting service to the RapidBus line).The only possible future RapidBus Stations beyond 2014 are one planned for Edwards Road & Highway 97 North once the six-laning of Highway 97 from Highway 33 to Edwards Road is complete. I’d love to see them add a RapidBus Station at Sexsmith Road (as well as potentially one at Daimler Road in West Kelowna), potentially within the next 3- to 5-years. As well, it should also be noted that the Westlake-Hudson RapidBus Station won’t start construction until next month, with targeted completion in “early November 2014,” so call it December based on the recent one month (or so) delay in the completion of the prior projects. That said, all of the other projects will have wound down by then so perhaps they can complete it quite quickly. :)
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