Nanaimo Transportation Master Plan

• Map 5 – Existing Major Road Network, pg.88-89
• Map 6 – Future Major Road Network Improvement Projects, pg.98-99
• Update Nanaimo’s designated truck route network, p.101-102
• Map 7 – Proposed Truck Route Network & Key Goods Movement Facilities, pg.104-105

Existing Major Road Network

Future Major Road Network Improvement Projects

Update Nanaimo’s designated truck route network

As a gateway to Vancouver Island and a regional distribution hub, a significant part of Nanaimo’s local economy is dependent on the movement of goods, services and people through and within the City. The City’s Strategic Plan supports this role and seeks to “position Nanaimo as the transportation and service hub for Vancouver Island”. As such, the City has a designated truck route network through Nanaimo that balances the needs of businesses with the desire to minimize the impact of truck traffic on neighbourhoods and other sensitive land uses. Trucks within the City are required to use the truck route network for travel across the City, and then proceed directly from the closest truck route to their final destination via local streets.

Generally, the existing truck route network functions well, but a number of changes are proposed to better connect adjacent commercial areas, include new industrial areas and to update disused segments of the existing network. It is recommended that the City update its truck route network as shown in Map 7. This can better link Nanaimo’s regional gateways and ‘special truck generators’ – including specific transportation, logistics, or industrial facilities that generate significant volumes of truck traffic (i.e. Departure Bay and Duke Point ferry terminals, Seaspan and Harmac Pacific facilities, Assembly Wharf, Coastland Mill and the Regional District’s Landfill site) with commercial and industrial land uses. Truck route changes are expected to reduce overall truck travel distances and associated impacts on residents, emissions, and costs.

The proposed truck route network will facilitate better connections between Nanaimo’s commercial and industrial centres, highways and ferries while minimizing impacts on residents and neighbourhoods. Adopting the proposed truck network would require amending the City’s Traffic and Highways Regulation Bylaw.

Proposed Truck Route Network & Key Goods Movement Facilities

Source: Nanaimo Official Transportation Master Plan
http://www.nanaimo.ca/assets/Departments/Engineering~Public~Works/Transportation~Master~Plan/2014-05-16%20-%20Transportation%20Master%20Plan%20-%20for%20Council%20Consideration.pdf