BC Transit Service Expansion Funding

Whereas the provincial freeze on funding to BC Transit is limiting local governments ability to maximize the desired social, environmental and economic benefits of public transit that are essential to communities across BC; And whereas the BC Transit service expansion funding freeze is inconsistent with current localprovincial transit plans that emphasize increasing transit mode share and ridership through service and infrastructure investments, and is also contrary to recent Federal budget investments into public transit: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM urge the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to reconsider the funding freeze on BC Transit service expansions over the next three years, from 2015 to 2018.