Tag: transit
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New Study Makes Strong Case for Getting Westshore Rail on Track
Sam Holland is the Chair of Better Transit YYJ Key Facts Without any fanfare or announcement, the BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit, quietly released a technical review of a proposed rail corridor linking Downtown Victoria to the Westshore via Uptown. The report reconsiders the rail corridor identified in the 2011 Rapid Transit study, in…
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Betting on parking is risky business
Curbspace is a finite resource. Should business communities go all in and rely on something that cannot grow?
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Missed your bus? Come back in 6 months
At the time of writing, there is no bus service in BC Transit’s Cowichan Valley Regional Transit System (read: Duncan, Lake Cowichan, etc.) due to an ongoing strike. In fact, there hasn’t been any bus service there since February 8 of this year, and we’re well into August now—that’s 197 days and counting. It’s a…
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Why are protestors asking to “Save the Bus?”
Hundreds of public transit supporters gathered last weekend to protest the TransLink funding shortfall that would decimate transit service across Metro Vancouver. Both the provincial government and the Metro Vancouver Mayors’ Council have so far been silent on covering the $580 million required to stop service cuts in 2026, with TransLink warning of a catastrophic…
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Victoria Residents Asked to Go Big on Housing and Transit; Staff Went Small.
Victoria’s OCP draft is out, and while it goes far, it doesn’t deal with a whole host of issues in getting housing built.
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Burnaby council sends Hastings bus lanes to public engagement purgatory
On November 18th, Burnaby City Council voted to send the proposal for bus lanes on Hastings Street back to a second round of public engagement, scaling back the original plan.
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McKenzie could finally get better transit—if transit riders stand up
During rush hour, transit riders make up more than half of the traffic on McKenzie, but currently get none of the road space. Saanich is trying to change that, in the face of opposition.