Work on a new transit exchange in the Valleyview area of Kamloops is expected to get underway in 2026.

Transportation Manager Purvez Irani says a conceptual design for the transit exchange, which is expected to rise on a site at Falcon Road and Oriole Road, was completed last year.

“It’s under detailed design as we speak, also with some other utility projects and road rehab projects,” Irani said at Tuesday’s council meeting. “We’re doing this as one complete project for the area.”

“Its in our budget, the current capital budget, and we’re expecting to do this is 2026. Obviously, we’ll also exhaust all efforts to receive any grant funding that is out there as well.”

Irani says a new express bus between Valleyview and Thompson Rivers University, that is scheduled to begin in September 2026, is contingent on the construction of this new transit exchange.

“Hopefully, in our peak it would be 15-minute service, and non-peak would be 30-minutes service,” Irani said of the bus route, which was given tentative approval by council as part of a wider three-year transit expansion plan that will take effect in Sept. 2025.

“This [express route] will also go hand in hand with our Valleyview Transit exchange construction at Falcon and Oriole.”

The Valleyview transit exchange will be the fourth in Kamloops, with the other three located at Sixth and Lansdowne downtown, at the Northills Shopping Centre on the North Shore, and at TRU.