Fair Access to Funding for Regional Public Transit

Whereas access to reliable public transit is critical to building affordable, healthy, connected, safe, equitable, accessible, and carbon neutral communities; And whereas the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Service Region Vancouver Area and the Victoria Regional Transit Service Area Victoria Area have access to a funding model that allows them to share the cost of public regional transit between drivers, user fares, and tax payers; however, this funding mechanism is not available to local governments outside of the two aforementioned areas: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM ask the government of BC and BC Transit to work together in 2020 to build on the current municipalprovincial cost sharing model to include a three-way cost-share funding model drivers, fares, and provincialmunicipal taxes for sustainable public regional transit and make this new model available to all local governments in time for 2021 budget cycles.