Transit in Surrey is at a turning point.
Major projects are underway, including the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension and the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) along King George. Several key plans that envision the future of transit in Surrey are also in development, including the Surrey Transportation Plan, the Surrey Transit Vision, the Official Community Plan update, and TransLink’s South of Fraser East Area Transport Plan.
This event invites us to pause and take stock.
What’s actually happening on the ground? How do all these moving pieces fit together? And most importantly, what kind of transit future transit riders want/need?
We’ll start with a short presentation from Movement, setting the stage with an overview of the current state of transit in Surrey and the needs of transit riders. From there, we’ll move into a panel discussion where panellists will respond to recordings of transit riders across Metro Vancouver sharing challenges they experience on their commutes, such as overcrowding, lack of late-night service, unreliable service, and safety concerns.
Dinner will be provided!
Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders is a non-profit that represents our region’s one million transit riders. We’ve often been left out of the conversation, and we’re here to speak up for faster, more reliable, more abundant transit. We’re focused on the growing number of bus routes where riders are left behind by full buses, day after day, primarily in Surrey and South Vancouver, as well as the urgent need for bus lanes that cost almost nothing but massively improve commutes for hundreds of thousands of people.
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