BC Transit fares to increase on April 1st
The cost to ride a BC Transit bus will increase on April 01, 2010. Photo © by VibrantVictoria.ca.
BC Transit announced a fare increase today for the Victoria Regional Transit System, effective April 01, 2010, and an annual tax increase for homes in metropolitan Victoria.
The standard adult fare will rise to $2.50 from $2.25, and monthly adult bus passes will increase to $80 from $73.25, eventually rising to $85 within three years.
Yearly property taxes will be hit with an additional $7 transit tax.
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Bernard
May 03, 2012 at 12:07 pmQuote: We've been saying all along that SNC's ties to Bombardier (maker of the light rail cars and technology) puts the rapid transitconsultant into a perceived conflict of interest position.
No the conflict is that SNC Lavalin builds LRTs and is not a transit consulting company. They recommended the project that would most likely bring them something to bid on and they have the inside track on all the information to make a bid
Coreyburger
May 03, 2012 at 2:53 pmQuote: And how long before our fantasy $1 billion LRT is up and running? 10 years? 20? The E&N makes a LOT more sense at least for the immediate future. :teacher:
Both require some sort of local funding. Neither of them have that secured right now. BC Transit and the CRD are working on local funding options for LRT right now. What is the ICF doing? (this isn't to slam the ICF, just to mention that one of these projects is moving on funding while the other isn't)
Bernard
May 03, 2012 at 3:40 pmThe cost to re-make the E&N line to usefully function as a serious transit option will not be cheap. Running a couple of trains each hour is not going to have any serious impact on traffic, for it to work it needs a lot of rebuilding and a lot of work done on all the level crossings and an extension through to Douglas street.
The E&N as a business should be focusing on where it can succeed the best and that is in the mid island.
G-Man
May 03, 2012 at 8:59 pmQuote: +1. The cart is so far ahead of the horse on this one I am not sure that poor mare can ever catch up.
Oh I would say funding for LRT is about 12 months out.
Nparker
May 03, 2012 at 9:24 pmQuote: Oh I would say funding for LRT is about 12 months out.
You really think so G? The Feds and the Province are going to fund $1 billion for LRT in Victoria in 2013? Even with a likely change in government here in BC next May, I just don't see this as priority for the Federal Conservatives, and I can't imagine the Province coming up with the full ticket price on their own, even if every riding on the Island goes to the
