Special webinar: 10-Year Vision for Big Boost for BC Transit
Fri, Mar 01
|Zoom, registration required
We are collaborating with West Kootenay Transit Action for a special webinar on the benefits of a major BC investment in public transit.
Time & Location
Mar 01, 2024, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Zoom, registration required
Guests
About the event
We are collaborating with West Kootenay Transit Action for a special webinar on the benefits of a major BC investment in public transit.
Economist Marc Lee from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) BC office, will lay out the plan to make public transit affordable, accessible, inclusive, carbon-zero and a great experience for users. Their new report, , provides a BC-wide vision uniting local and regional transit into an integrated whole that is properly funded.Connecting BC: A 10-year vision for public transit throughout BC
Nelson City Councillor Rik Logtenberg will offer a local response following Marc's presentation. Rik has championed major growth in rural transit and chairs the West Kootenay Transit Committee where collaborating local governments oversee transit in the Central Kootenay and the Kootenay Boundary regional districts.
“The crux of the report is how greatly expanded transit can really help people,” says Keith Wiley who…