Unlike those using the recently announced increaseed transit service along the Calgary, Banff, Canmore, and Lake Louise corridor, once again this winter citizens and visitors travelling the Sea to Sky highway through the Christmas rush and ski season won’t have to put up with a similar, pesky increase in the number of transit buses clogging the road from Vancouver to Pemby.
Closer to home, there has been a decade of much (too much?) talk, regional studies, staff and consultant reports, and the wringing of political hands about our “traffic backups, accidents and the environment” regarding our poor corridor transit. Despite the avalanche of documentation and verbiage, the political and bureaucratic gridlock has hold, and a reliable, robust and continuing corridor bus service eludes us!?
I worked for CP Rail and the PGE (CN Rail today), and don’t see rail service from North Vancouver as a starter.
That our political masters on each strata seem unable/unwilling to find and negotiate a financial and operational transit service model for our “world-class resort” is unacceptable, and a profound failure.
Whistler, Squamish, and Pemberton councils, along with the provincial government, must recommit and elevate this critical transportation and environmental priority. Make this long, long overdue transit upgrade happen in 2024—please.
