www.reddit.com/r/VictoriaBC... Transit was prepped for Canada Day, with dozens of buses staged all over Downtown. Too bad it still took ages for those buses to actually get to bus stops because cars clogged up Douglas St. Why aren't we blocking cars off of Douglas for events like Canada Day? #yyj

$250000 for the chronically overcrowded Route 66 FVX bus. $2500000000 to widen Highway 1, with no provisions for transit priority west of 264 St, and no intention to retrofit transit priority west of Carvolth where the 555 and 66 both experience some of the worst delays anywhere in the region.

After almost waiting a year, I finally received a copy of my FOI request to the provincial government of British Columbia about plans for passenger railway service along the Sea to Sky Corridor plus details about intercity bus service. It's 2,000+ pages so this is going to be an ongoing thread.

this is an excellent history of transit in BC if you haven't read it!

There's a legitimate equity issue where some people are priced out of transit access. Universal free fares, however, perpetuate that transit is only for the poor. Significantly expanded transit, with a more robust social fare program, is how you build a service for everyone.

Sounds like California's public transit investment policies need to be aligned with its climate goals. Running fewer buses so that they can be zero emission is not a climate policy, because it forces more people to drive.

Don't have to look far for examples of HOV lanes being bad for transit. TransLink's 555, a route with 99% HOV lanes, has peak direction runtimes padded to **double** what offpeak conditions require. Very few other routes have to deal with that level of variance. 99% transit priority btw.

Transit agencies should stop talking about getting "back" to pre-COVID ridership. Here's why. humantransit.org/2026/06/tran...

For the Swartz Bay connection, the 70 is already about as good as it can be short of the bus actually driving onto the ferry. The problem is with onward connections. A 70 going to the 6AM ferry existing doesn't mean anything if your local Core route doesn't start running for another 1-2 hours.

sidney.civicweb.net/document/587... That a transit drivers' union saw a need to write to a council to ask for a dedicated operator washroom at a new transit exchange is like if accessibility advocates saw a need to petition a City for wheelchair access to a new library or whatever amenity.

so stew young is campaigning to kill off the ONE thing that let transit be even remotely useful and "only" lose to the grannies on bicycles by 10 minutes.

www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... Are decisionmakers aware that the 28 minute number is complete bunk? The consultants assumed average speed is equivalent to max speed. Probably the most rudimentary error possible. At this rate, that corridor is going to be nothing more than a distraction.

On Friday, we proved that even buses running ahead of schedule are still too slow. BC Transit, the City of Victoria, and the District of Colwood are the institutions that need to step up. Together, we will keep push for a better, safer, more reliable city. #yyj #racethebus

yes the grannies won by over 10 minutes

The 2027 CRD O-D study can't come soon enough. It's actively harmful at this point for the 2022 results to still be used and cited, when those numbers do not reflect the massive Active Transportation improvements of the last few years, and also measures Transit at close to its COVID low point.

BREAKING: Mayor Ken Sim's ABC majority voted not to reduce speed limits on major roads, despite 93% of all road fatalities in Vancouver happening on arterials. This was one of the most important Near-Term Actions in the entire plan, because roads will never be safe until people drive at safe speeds.

Mobility is opportunity. Big thanks to Jessie Sohpaul for these incredible illustrations (EN + Punjabi). Vancouver is on board with a low-income transit pass. Now we need timelines + pressure on the Province. Let’s get this done before July. win.newmode.net/move...

Waymos in California are driving around empty almost half the time. As with Uber-Lyft, all that mileage is new congestion compared to everyone driving alone OR using transit/bike/walk. findingspress.org/article/1618...

We need transit riders in particular for responses for the Interurban project. This is one of the worst spots for transit delay in the entire region, and Transit has **already** had to cut service multiple times due to buses being stuck in traffic, **solely** due to this intersection.

That new funding tool *needs* scalability as a bare minimum requirement. If it's stuck at the ~100m/year, TransLink will be back at a fiscal cliff within a matter of a few years.

- MTA bus speeds in & around the decongestion zone increased 2.3%, reversing years of decline & delivering more reliable trips. - Ridership grew on routes through the decongestion zone: subway trips +9%, local/select bus +8.4%, express bus +7.8%. - Greenhouse gas emissions in the zone fell ~6.1%

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Why does it feel like election promises for transit always end up going in opposite directions compared to where a transit operation actually needs help?

This is now over a decade from when the first Douglas St bus lane section opened. By the time this *only* useful piece of transit priority in the entire region is fully open it'll be 15 years. TL built out Scott Road in about a year. We can do so much better than one mediocre bus lane in 15 years.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

From the Draft Saanich Climate Plan. Owning and operating cars is expensive. Having more and better transit options saves people money. #yyj #transit www.saanich.ca/assets/Commu...

bettercolumbia.ca/2026/04/27/t... Our transit funding model is broken. Either funding party can unilaterally deny transit expansion. And of course, the Province decided to actively veto every BCT expansion requested this year, including for exact election promises like Sea to Sky.

www.northerndevelopment.bc.ca/wp-content/u... The existing service has a total budget of <$3m a year -- and only funded for another year. We're willing to blow a multi-billion dollar hole in our budget to axe the carbon tax, but not willing to spend the chump change to improve intercity transit.

This is one of the biggest transit delay spots in the network, so make your voice heard and tell Saanich staff you want no delay for buses! hello.saanich.ca/.../interurb... #yyj #BCTransit

Good that this targets a very valid pain point of poor service span to YYJ without adversely screwing existing transit users. We need all levels of government to step up and properly invest in transit before transit staff is once again forced to consider robbing Peter to pay Paul.

This is one of those weird policy spaces where we have fallen behind Calgary, Edmonton, Kamloops, Toronto, every major American city, etc. I always come back to "why?", what with our reputation for leftyness? The situation is embarrassing and I hope that will make this campaign an easy win.

“The best-used euro is not to reduce the price but to increase the offer,” says Kehrer. “Because what’s the use of a cheap ticket if I still can’t travel when I want to?”

gee I wonder how many expansion buses BCT has on order due to arrive this upcoming year, and how many additional service hours the Province had agreed to fund for this upcoming year.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... It's a symptom of a failed society for transit to be so nonexistent that people unable to drive are forced to pick between taking a cab, learning how to ride a scooter, or begging for a ride for daily essentials, or starving.

Automated bus/streetcar Lane enforcement is the norm now in many cities in North America. One of the many cameras on the bus snaps the license plate of any car illegally in front of the bus. Which Canadian city will be the first to implement it?

BCT Vic, per the 2011 plan, was supposed to be at ~1.1m annual hours by 2020. Instead, 2024 actuals sat at about 870k. www.bctransit.com/about/facts/... And then of course TransLink has operated fiscal cliff to fiscal cliff, bailout to bailout, for the entirety of its existence.

Getting more and better transit is a big lift that requires collaboration, and that's why we are overjoyed to be part of a new coalition called the Public Transit Alliance of BC. Yesterday, we launched our first province-wide campaign, a call for an intercity public transit network. #yyj #bcpoli

For those who live in #yyj and care about this, check out @bettertransityyj.ca ;)

If only we had electeds here who would fight for bus lanes too. Fun fact, several buses in Victoria (including the 26!) carry more daily ridership than the Route 8 in Seattle, but apparently bus lanes on McKenzie are a crime against humanity that must never be allowed to happen.

www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna... Yet another school district looking to axe school buses due to a lack of provincial funding ("the kids can just take transit"), but transit can't add service due to a lack of provincial funding. And in the end, transit becomes the villain for not adding service.

I went on Denis's walking tour two years ago, and it totally transit-pilled me. It really opened my eyes to how transit is treated as an afterthought instead of a priority. Now I get to help host it! Come through! 😁

Curbside parking downtown is stealing your bus service hours.

www.translink.ca/-/media/tran... 1/3 of rideshare trips in Metro Vancouver are trips where transit already provides a one-seat ride option, usually frequent. Not a surprise at all. Rideshare's entire MO is by stealing transit's ridership.

The current Australian free fare experiment in Victoria (Melbourne) is theoretically tied to the fuel crisis. But it's doing nothing for ridership. Ridership is up the same amount in NSW (Sydney) where fares are normal. www.afr.com/companies/tr...

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

chemainusvalleycourier.ca/2026/04/21/c... "A statement from the Ministry of Transporation and Transit said... decisions about local routes and service levels are the responsibility of local governments, in this case, the CVRD." uh no, Ministry, you were literally the one that denied this expansion

A free latte a day isn't going to convince someone to switch to another mode that takes an hour longer, but if it were time competitive, free latte or not, it would be attractive.

bsky.app/profile/ef63... if we want great transit in #yyj and elsewhere in BC, we need to to adopt a whole spectrum of priority measures like the mature transit cities of the world do. Sticking to only bus lanes and longer green lights is like having a toolbox with just a hammer and screwdriver!

Under the proposed Xavier's law, *if* the driver gets caught, the cops *may* choose to suspend their license for *just* 30 days. In reality, they should be arrested and tried for attempted murder. Too bad that we live in a society where being in a car is considered a right and not a privilege.