Author: Movement
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RELEASE – BC transport advocates seek candidates and voters who want affordability, safer streets, less congestion
RELEASE – BC transport advocates seek candidates and voters who want affordability, safer streets, less congestion Oct 5, 2024 An unprecedented coalition of transport advocates in BC are looking for candidates that will speak up to address road safety and congestion this election. Vote Better Transport BC (VBT) is made up of 12 non-partisan groups…
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Guest Post: How can we turn the 49 into a Yellow Brick Road?
By Jamie Burke “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” This infamous line, delivered by Dorothy to her beloved dog Toto, is from Tristen Foy’s favourite film ‘The Wizard of Oz’. Tristen tells me this as we’re cruising along the 49 route together, sitting near the back of the bus. It’s a…
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Transit Riders groups in 3 Canadian Cities react to Rail Lockouts
Image of West Coast Express locomotive by Northwest on Wikipedia For immediate release Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto, August 22nd, 2024 – Trajectoire Québec, TTCriders and Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders denounce that rail users are at the mercy of freight transportation in Canada. The situation caused by the labour conflict at CPKC is another example…
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Vancouver bus lane motion passes; transit riders thrilled
For Immediate Release VANCOUVER – On Wednesday, July 24, Vancouver City Council adopted a motion to urgently speed up buses on 9 corridors across the city. This builds on last fall’s bus lane motion to move faster, do more, and do what’s in the city’s power to bring forward automated bus lane enforcement. This gives…
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RELEASE: Movement urges Vancouver Council to take decisive action on bus lanes
On Wednesday, July 24, Vancouver City Council will vote on a motion to deliver more . . .
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Praise to New West for approving plan to quickly address bus delay
New West is taking decisive action on bus delay. We want to see MoTI do the same.
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Movement & Friends react to the Federal Permanent Transit Fund
Movement has signed on to a joint statement issued by Environmental Defence Canada, and co-signed by TTCRiders, Equiterre, and the David Suzuki Foundation. Here’s our quote: “To transit riders, it feels like this funding announcement is taking place in a parallel universe. Capital funding to build transit will be crucial for future generations, but what…
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We’re trying to get Vancouver to build more bus lanes, faster
We’re working with Vision Zero Vancouver to support a motion coming to Vancouver council on July 24th to add bus lanes on many of Vancouver’s most congested bus corridors.
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Why are other cities getting more bus lanes than us? Watch video of our event.
Movement was honoured to welcome two transit experts from the US – Kate Elliott from New York and Dongho Chang from Seattle. The topic? Some cities in the US are building TONS of bus lanes and transit priority. Meanwhile, Vancouver has more transit users than those cities – so why aren’t we honouring them by…
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Burnaby Heights deserves better transit
Opponents want to route the new RapidBus away from the Heights, we want it through the Heights!
