we should start offering transit operators bonuses for laying on the horn if they're stuck behind some idiot driver doing something illegal

pub-fvrd.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.a... Despite record ridership growth, and chronic overcrowding affecting virtually all time periods, the FVRD is considering withholding proposed expansion for the 66 Fraser Valley Express for FY26-27, deferring it to FY27-28.

Amazing news yesterday. Youth bus passes were on the chopping block for the City of Victoria's budget, but received unanimous Council support to save it. Unanimous! Glad to see our local electeds are continuing to support social fare programs, and really hoping to see it expand even further. #yyj

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

"It is well documented that public transit significantly benefits economic productivity [...]. For a 500-page productivity-focused budget, it’s striking that the term “public transit” appears only three times." 🚍 Great piece by @1alexhemingway.bsky.social

Great news out of Chicago. Now surely our province, who is so transit-friendly they added Transit to the name of the ministry, is going to: - Permanently fix TL's 2027 fiscal cliff - Fund TL's Access for Everyone Plan - Actually give BCT the expansion BCT is asking for Right? Right???

With the federal budget and now this, there's a concerning trend that politicians, at all levels, are looking to cut transit funding in the name of austerity -- when in fact, transit investment becomes MORE critically important in difficult economic times given all the societal benefits it brings.

Surface transit can be more reliable, and can move more people, if we do it right. @ttcriders.bsky.social is hosting a "Save Our Streetcars Summit" on November 23rd - come chat with @CodeRedTO and your fellow transit riders! https://www.ttcriders.ca/save_our_streetcars_summit

This article is SO GOOD. Highly recommend. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nothing to see here, just me and my 26 taking 8 minutes to travel the 500m from Saanich/McKenzie to McKenzie/Quadra. On a Saturday. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Seattle Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck is rolling out a "Better Buses" campaign with transit advocates, seeking to improve speed and reliability with bus lanes on key routes.

engage.bctransit.com/victoria-reg... Looks like a Saturday in-person consultation session for the VRTP has been added for 2-4pm on the 25th at the Uptown Walmart. Probably a good call as students and commuters were largely timed out of all the previous sessions as they were all during the day. #yyj

EVs significantly reduce the marginal cost of driving, which is going to be a disaster for our cities. It now costs me $15 round-trip to drive from Vancouver to Seattle with up to 5 people. Why would I park my car and take transit once I get there? Road pricing will eventually prove essential.

Here we go again 🙃

speed cameras are the funniest tax in existence because it has the biggest loophole possible in the universe to facilitate tax evasion

engage.bctransit.com/victoria-reg... BC Transit is updating the Victoria regional transit plan. Questions up for discussion (survey linked) include: - How frequent is "frequent"? - What times of day should service run? - How many transfers is "too many"? - Where should expansion be prioritized?

Tragic events like this are all too common, yet they've for decades been dismissed as "it is what it is" in society's continuous pursuit to save seconds on the road. Meanwhile, we're making it EASIER, not harder, to get a license in BC by removing the second road test. Something needs to change.

20km is a distance where very few would choose to bike, and so the only way you induce a positive modal shift is by convincing people to take transit. Only problem right now with that is, the *scheduled* time for this 20km trip is slower than biking, to say nothing of the chronic peak unreliability.

Victoria Transit's network has a single point of failure at the geographic funnel between the Core and the West Shore, where any disruption (itself not exactly uncommon) results in crippling delays that cascade across the whole region. 1/5

🎉 GoByTransit Week!?! 🚌 We're celebrating Metro Vancouver's 1 MILLION daily transit riders with special Celebration Stations throughout the region! Stop by for ☕ Free coffee, 🥐 Free snacks and ❤ Free stickers! 🤳 Share your transit journey! Tag us @movementyvr and use #GoByTransitWeekYVR

BC folks! Outstanding piece here by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, co-ED of @bcpolicy.bsky.social. BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures. Read on 👇 vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Meanwhile for Douglas St in Downtown Victoria, with over 60 buses per direction per hour during peaks, it's taken a decade for planning work to actually start, a year for a lackluster 10%-conceptual design to show up, and likely will take years longer for anything to happen. We can do better.