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Friday afternoon commute slow due to BCTransit bus on fire, Hwy #1

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Perhaps a drive through Colwood is in order, if you’re commuting from Victoria and coming home to Sooke. Twitter is ablaze with tweets about a bus on fire on the northbound TransCanada Highway south of Millstream in Langford, just outside of Victoria. DriveBC is reporting the northbound highway is closed. CTV News Vancouver Island is reporting that the highway is expected to reopen momentarily.

First reported on Twitter by 100.3 The Q! FM, who also just reported the following separate incident: “2:27pm #yyjtraffic Accident reported Tyee & Bay at Bay Street Bridge. Expect delays. ~ @ryanawram”

Tweets below are from first to latest. Click on the link in the tweets for details (where available) from the respective news source.

Meanwhile near the Bay Street bridge…

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Friday afternoon commute slow due to BCTransit bus on fire, Hwy #1 — 13 Comments

  1. From CFAX: 2:33pm Update Fire officials cleaning diesel off TCH at site of bus fire near Millstream. Two northbound lanes currently closed, but expected to re-open by around 2:30. #yyj

  8. Times for postings all confusing again. Settings gone wrong? I’ve got June 24, 9:30 pm showing on my computer and the posting above says Jne 25, 12:28 am.

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