HandyDART explained

HandyDART is an accessible transit service in British Columbia that uses vans or small buses to transport disabled or elderly passengers who cannot use the normal transit system.^[1] This service provides door-to-door service and is available in all of the province's larger centres, as well as in many smaller communities.

BC Transit

BC Transit operates 16 Custom Transit (handyDART) Systems^[2]

• Alberni-Clayoquot
• Campbell River
• Central Fraser Valley
• Chilliwack
• Cranbrook
• Kamloops
• Kelowna Regional
• Kitimat
• Kootenay Boundary
• Nanaimo Regional
• Penticton
• Prince George
• Prince Rupert
• Vernon Regional
• Victoria Regional
• West Kootenay

Metro Vancouver

In Metro Vancouver the current contractor for HandyDART service is Transdev,^[3] having acquired the previous operator, First Transit, in 2023.^{[4] [5]}

Roster

• Ford Cut-Away Vans - modified mini buses (Ford Transit chassis)
• Chevrolet and GMC Cut-Away Vans - modified mini buses (Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana chassis)

Accessibility is also linked with other modes of transit on TransLink:

• All buses and Community Shuttles
• SkyTrain
• West Coast Express passenger cars
• SeaBus

See also

• Coast Mountain Bus Company
• Cutaway bus

Sorter van* TransLink (British Columbia)

External links

• HandyDART Modernization Program (2022)

Notes and References

1. Web site: HandyDART . Accessible Transit . TransLink . 20 January 2016 . 17 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160117113831/http://www.translink.ca/en/Rider-Guide/Accessible-Transit/HandyDART.aspx . dead .
2. http://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2005/sp/crownagency/bctransit.pdf BC Transit Service Plan 2005-2008
3. Web site: Paratransit in Canada . Transdev . 14 October 2023.
4. Web site: Brown . Janet . Little . Simon . HandyDART riders express hopes and concerns as new contractor gears up . Global News . CKNW . 23 July 2018.
5. Web site: Transdev completed acquisition of First Transit . 7 March 2023 . Sustainable Bus.