- Frequent and Affordable Vancouver Island Bus Service
- What We Want and Don’t Want
- Organization Introduction & Objectives Presentation
- Provincial Sustainable Transportation Policy Recommendations
- Protecting Goldstream Park
Frequent and Affordable Vancouver Island Bus Service
Backgrounder document outlining the rationale behind the push for convenient and inexpensive public transit connecting Cental and South Vancouver Island.
More frequent and affordable bus services connecting South and Central Vancouver Island would help many travellers and communities, is far more cost effective, faster to implement, and provides more total benefits than other transportation improvement options. For these reasons, regional districts, BC Transit and MoTI should implement frequent and affordable bus service in 2025.
Last Updated: June 6th, 2024
What We Want and Don’t Want
BC needs a planning process that can efficiently develop interregional transit services which serve community needs and support strategic goals.
British Columbians need a multimodal transportation system that serves everyone’s mobility needs, including interregional travellers who cannot, should not or prefer not to drive. More frequent and affordable intercity bus service is essential for achieving these goals.
Last Updated: June 7th, 2024
Organization Introduction & Objectives Presentation
Frequent and affordable bus service with TDM incentives is by far the most cost-effective and way to improve mobility and reduce Island Highway traffic problems.
We don’t want to repeat the slow and costly planning process for the #70 Duncan-Nanaimo route that took a decade and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Last Updated: February 26th, 2024
Provincial Sustainable Transportation Policy Recommendations
Our recommendations for sustainable transportation policy in British Columbia to improve mobility, reduce congestion, and lower emissions.
We recommend that the provincial government prioritize frequent and affordable bus service connecting Victoria with central Vancouver Island, as it offers user and community benefits, reduces congestion, crashes, and emissions more cost-effectively than highway improvements.
Last Updated: July 14th, 2024
Protecting Goldstream Park
The BC Ministry of Transportation’s plan to widen Highway 1 through Goldstream Park involves significant environmental disruption and high costs.
Todd Litman argues that improving public transit services, such as increasing the frequency and affordability of bus routes #66 and #70, would provide greater benefits, reduce environmental impact, and better serve the community compared to the highway expansion.
Last Updated: July 12th, 2024