Provide Funding to Double Transit Services in Rural BC

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.