Friday afternoon commute slow due to BCTransit bus on fire, Hwy #1
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.
#yyjtraffic There is a bus on fire Northbound on #HWY1. Just past Thetis Lake. Smoke in area. Road ranger reports of traffic stoped. ~Graham
— 100.3 The Q! (@TheQdotFM) June 24, 2016
A BC Transit bus fire has been put out by Langford fire crews. Pic by Michael Douglas #yyj #yyjtraffic pic.twitter.com/hBL5OAXmZU
— VibrantVictoria.ca (@VibrantVictoria) June 24, 2016
Bus fire Highway 1. Just south of Millstream. Northbound traffic is at standstill. #yyjtraffic pic.twitter.com/tTHe46PVyZ
— Victoria Buzz (@victoriabuzzes) June 24, 2016
#yyjTRAFFIC: major traffic backlog now on TCH following bus blaze #yyj pic.twitter.com/iqOuh6mPPM
— VibrantVictoria.ca (@VibrantVictoria) June 24, 2016
RT @cfax1070: No passengers were on bus when fire broke out, driver managed to get off the bus uninjured #yyjtraffic pic.twitter.com/fOhG8KoqvY
— CTV News VI (@CTVNewsVI) June 24, 2016
Attn #yyjtraffic #yyj https://t.co/P3SXjnFHnF
— BC Transportation (@TranBC) June 24, 2016
Both northbound lanes of TCH are closed following a bus fire, expected to re-open any minute #yyjtraffic pic.twitter.com/6QEoCRV0un
— CTV News VI (@CTVNewsVI) June 24, 2016
Meanwhile near the Bay Street bridge…
#yyjTRAFFIC: crews are dealing with an incident on the west side of Bay Bridge. Traffic closed eastbound #yyj pic.twitter.com/B28R6b7NnH
— VibrantVictoria.ca (@VibrantVictoria) June 24, 2016
Northbound left and centre lane on TCH have re-opened between Millstream & Thetis, right lane is closed #yyjtraffic https://t.co/T6yc4FY3Qv
— CTV News VI (@CTVNewsVI) June 24, 2016
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
Entire area still gridlocked- I’m currently on Watkiss Way ( near Vic General)
3:26 pm
Dave Van Dyck Lesley Booth ??
Nope!
Terri-Lynn Ash
Friday afternoon commute, oh joy. Thanks for sharing.
WOWsers!
Hope everyone is ok
R.I.P. 9104
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.
Just another reason you can’t trust transit
They’ve burned you too many times