Whereas adding more routes between our rural communities and more trips on existing routes will benefit our health system by helping seniors and others access healthcare services; And whereas reliable regional rural transit is a critical component of a British Columbia wide affordable housing strategy; And whereas improving our rural transit systems will deliver significant economic benefits by providing more reliable transportation for students and frontline workers; And whereas an expanded rural transit system will deliver significant GHG reduction, by shifting kilometers travelled from costly and polluting single-occupancy vehicles to high-occupancy buses: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM ask the provincial government to provide sufficient additional funding to double services in British Columbia regional rural transit systems.
