Monday's funding will go to 'state of good repair' projects, things like replacing trolley wires and upgrading existing equipment.
The federal government is committing hundreds of millions of dollars to Metro Vancouver transit, but as Aaron McArthur reports, it will do nothing to ease TransLink's operational funding crisis.connection to North Vancouver, despite the city serving as a backdrop for a major injection of federal capital funding for the region’s transit system.get $663 million of “baseline” capital funding over a decade from the Canada Public Transit Fund, starting in 2026.
City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan said regional officials remain hopeful some of that money will be included in a second tranche of funding to come from Ottawa’s Canada Public Transit Fund. Federal Energy and National Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, who also represents North Vancouver as an MP, didn’t comment on what such an agreement could look like or when it could arrive for the Lower Mainland but acknowledged the critical need for rapid transit on the North Shore.Health experts call Alberta COVID-19 report an attempt to ‘rewrite history’
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