One stop closer: R6 Scott Road RapidBus construction surpasses the halfway point! [PHOTOS]
One stop closer: R6 Scott Road RapidBus construction surpasses the halfway point! [PHOTOS]
Construction for the R6 Scott Road RapidBus is in full swing and we recently achieved a significant milestone.
Construction is about 65 per cent complete and the R6 Scott Road RapidBus is on track to launch in early 2024!
Set to serve the busiest bus corridor south of the Fraser River, the R6 Scott Road RapidBus promises customers a ride that’s at least 20 per cent faster than the local service. This is possible thanks to fewer stops, all-door boarding, and new bus priority infrastructure such as dedicated bus lanes and queue jumps.
Adding bus priority lanes
In key sections of the Scott Road corridor, we’ve added dedicated bus lanes to improve bus speed and reliability, minimize congestion, and provide an improved transit experience for our customers. Two general travel lanes remain available for regular traffic.
Building upgraded bus stops
The new bus stops will feature sheltered seating areas and digital displays with and additional accessibility features such as text-to-audio functionality on the digital bus arrival information and tactile pads.
What we’re doing on the Scott Road corridor
We’re hard at work to improve safety on the corridor for all road users by adding new pedestrian crosswalks and updated traffic signals, making intersections safer. We’re also building new paths, improved sidewalks, and lighting to improve walking and cycling infrastructure.
Overall, this project will alleviate congestion on the fourth-busiest route in the region, and the priority measures will also benefit the other 12 routes that run on a portion of the corridor.
About the R6 Scott Road RapidBus
In partnership with the City of Surrey and the City of Delta, the R6 Scott Road RapidBus is our largest service expansion since 2020 and will meet the growing demand for transit south of the Fraser River.
With more than 30,000 bus boardings each weekday along the Scott Road corridor, this new service will allow for faster, more reliable transit between Scott Road Station and Newton Exchange.
To learn more about this exciting new project and follow its updates, visit translink.ca/r6.
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You guys have made living in north delta a hell parking lot. Rapid bus lanes are causing such a disaster. Do you think people are not going to drive these lanes when there is traffic? Do you even know where these are being installed?
Agree
I guess they should be ready to get fined.
“Do you even know where these are being installed?”
What kind of a question is this, genius? They’re the ones building it. Also, fine, try driving in it and get fined. Should be fun. :) More funding for Translink!
I tried to shed a tear for your “hell parking lot” sentiment, but I couldn’t muster one up. This will ultimately help alleviate traffic and provide a stronger alternative to driving for a percentage of the population. You’ll thank them later—except you won’t, because you won’t put two and two together once traffic calms.
Surrey is growing the most in the lower mainland and we get rapid buses while children at UBC and SFU get skytrains. What a joke.
Surrey-Langley SkyTrain is in the works. That takes years to build and is expensive. Congestion/traffic is not waiting for SkyTrain.
Neither UBC or SFU have SkyTrain lmao
You do know that more people are driving cars everyday. This isn’t going to stop them. Adding a skytrain would have been smarter but you guys thought making lanes smaller is the answer.
This is much needed. The 319 is always overcrowded these days. Can’t wait for the R6 RapidBus to launch!
Isn’t it just replacing the 319? How is it any better?
It’s not replacing the 319. The 319 will still run, although limited service. At least that’s what they say on their R6 page. The RapidBuses are bigger and can take more customers and will have reduced number of stops compared to the 319. I take the 319 and I am tired of breathing in someone else’s air.
then get a car then you won’t breath someone elses air space
And add to an already congested corridor? Smart ass.
This exciting project has been a real pain in the rear end for everyone trying to get in and out of Surrey and Delta for months! An absolute nightmare and the planners should all be fired!!
The pain comes before the gain right? At least for transit customers. I take the 319 and I am excited about the RapidBus coming to Scott Road!
Finish what you start planners.
Example the corner of 96th and Scott, the un even un even pavement is very dangerous for Motorcycles and Scooters.
Finally! BRT next!
Hope it all works for busses and cars.
Hurry the hell up too. Sick of the traffic there now
Delta is ruined by all this traffic cutting through used to be a pleasant place to live. Not anymore!
Scott Road needed RapidBus like yesterday.
While the tri-cities and other less populated cities are getting a nice Skytrain, above ground, delta and Surrey get a brt…it’s time to really rebuild Scott road and actually spend some money on it. This is a bandage solution.
I agree too. But SkyTrain takes years to build and much more money. Nice to have an interim solution in the meantime.
One major problem: this new RapidBus route has to pass through four railroad crossings on Scott Road and 72 Avenue. Even though trains rarely use them, they could cause lengthy delays for buses.
Im all for an express bus on this route but construction for it and the changes to the road make it pointless. The money spent on construction on redesign for the road can be used to make this bus exist already.
How will an express bus exist without road changes? Dedicated bus lanes are part of what makes the buses faster.
Waiting for the FIRST PERSON TO BE KILLED BY A CAR TRYING TO GET OVER TO THE BUS STOP AT 72 St stop
What will that achieve? What point will that help you prove?
So this project is what has made it a new hell for emergency services to respond anywhere along 120th St.
Installing medians takes away an out for these emergency vehicles to get through the traffic.
Additionally, the travel lanes are narrower so when vehicles pull to the “closest curb” there’s no way for the emergency vehicles to get through.
One more reason for a delay in help getting to where it’s needed.
Vent as much as you want, it all goes to deaf ears
Maybe instead of venting to TransLink who doesn’t have control over municipal sidewalks and roads, vent to the Cities of Surrey and Delta who approved the project.
Can we get weekly construction updates? It should be more than 65% complete now, right?
I wrote to TransLink on Friday and they said they were at 71%. Hopefully, they get to 75% this week. Would be disastrous if construction is not completed this year as promised.