Author: Movement
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If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight – Movement Book Talk
Your transportation dreams are within reach—are you ready to fight for them? From safer streets to faster trains, the changes you want are possible—and transportation advocate Carter Lavin can show you how to make them real. Whether you’re dreaming of protected bike lanes, better bus service, or a bold high-speed rail future, Carter offers a…
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RELEASE: End snow bus pile-ups!
Send a comment or sign up to speak in support of motion 5: Bus To Move. Snow clearing priority for transit trouble spots is an obvious solution to our city’s winter woes. Share your story of being stranded in the snow with council. Sign up by 5pm Feb 3rd, 2026. Movement encourages council to vote…
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Bus Lanes for Hastings!
Important Update: April 23, 2026 Vancouver is postponing the proposed Hastings bus lanes, and doing even more consultation on the Hastings Street corridor in 2027. We’ll be sure to let you know when consultation opens up. A municipal election is coming up in the fall, and candidates will be asking for your vote. Be sure…
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What’s red and takes 1,000 days to create? Vancouver bus lanes with paint and signs, apparently
Excerpt submitted by Michael Hall, Government Relations Lead at Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders. Written for Daily Hive Urbanized. Read the full article by Michael Hall at the Daily Hive Urbanized In October 2023, Vancouver City Council voted unanimously in favour of a member motion by city councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung to add bus priority measures on major…
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The Case of Vancouver’s Nine Missing Bus Lanes
Bus lane statuses updated as of June 2026 New bus lanes in the City of Vancouver since July 24th, 2024: 0 KM Vancouver is missing nine bus lanes, but you, dear reader, can help us find them. Read on to solve the mystery and get all the bus lane updates as they come in. In…
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An update (or non-update) for bus lanes on Granville
It’s been eight months since our campaign launched to push for bus lanes promised back in 2023 by Vancouver City Council. It’s 2026 – there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the city is still planning on going ahead with transit priority on Granville, and they might have totally caved if…
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Ambitious BRT plan will be huge for Surrey, Langley and Maple Ridge, but details and funding matter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 13, 2026 Today, TransLink released a more detailed proposal for their Bus Rapid Transit plans in Surrey, Langley, and Maple Ridge. Movement wholeheartedly supports Bus Rapid Transit in the Lower Mainland and is encouraged to see these designs with very significant portions of centre-running bus lanes. We will be reviewing the details…
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RELEASE: Metro Vancouver bus service is expanding on Monday. It’s just a sample of what we could get with more funding.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 2nd, 2025 Movement will be riding the first ever mid-day trip of route 80 in the River District.● Available for interviews before, during, and after the ride VANCOUVER – On Monday, TransLink is rolling out increased service on dozens of routes across Metro Vancouver. This is thanks to new funding that…
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Service challenges and recommendations for 502, 503 and 388 bus routes
We’ve been spending time in Surrey, listening closely to transit riders and learning from their everyday experiences of moving through the city. Through this engagement, two key hotspots emerged as areas of concern and opportunity. This memo summarizes what we heard and shares our recommendations based on those insights. We gathered this feedback through multiple…
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RELEASE: As federal transit fund disappears, two potential new transit funding tools identified in Surrey competition
For Immediate Release [Photos available here] SURREY – Last Friday, Movement hosted Transit’s Next Top Funding Model at SFU Surrey campus. 300 spectators attended, and 8 teams presented their tools to fix the transit funding crisis. Two were crowned winners. With the passage of the federal budget today, the Canadian Public Transit Fund is officially…
