Author: Movement
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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!
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Our response to TL’s Burrard Peninsula ATP
Read our suggestions for improving transit in Vancouver, Burnaby and New Westminster.
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Movement Responds to Provincial Transit Funding
Movement was founded last year, in part, to draw more attention to the severe overcrowding and delay that affects transit riders in Metro Vancouver. Today, the BC Minister of Transportation Rob Fleming announced $300 million in new capital funding for TransLink. Movement wants to express its gratitude to the BC government for stepping up while…
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Burnaby Heights Residents Want Better Transit
Movement is mobilizing transit supporters to speak up in support of a proposed new RapidBus that would link Burnaby Heights to the North Shore and to Metrotown. This effort is in response to a campaign from the Heights Merchants Association (HMA) who are campaigning to have the route swerve around their vibrant, walkable community.
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Metro Vancouver Transit Riders Left Behind by 2024 BC Budget
“Send more. So many more. This is such a crucial line for so many people and it gets half the amount of buses sent that it should. I am so sick of getting passed five times on my way to school in the morning making me late for class.”– Anonymous 49 rider, in response to…
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Event Recap: Movement x UBC CAPACity
The reason our first Movement meeting was at UBC was because a passionate group of students approached us first before we could even plan something. They’re called CAPACity and they’re AWESOME! We got together on November 28th, 2023 to talk about how we can make transit better, and how we’re going to start with the…