Expert: Second transit authority needed

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Expert: Second transit authority needed
'Vancouver is being subsidized by the rest of the Valley'
Amanda Wawryk Apr 11, 2011 07:48:23 AM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - He's calling our current system out-dated.  One light rail advocate believes a second transit authority would do a better job in providing viable transportation solutions.

Malcolm Johnson, with Rail for the Valley, says despite higher taxes, people living across the Fraser River aren't seeing enough progress.

"And the South Fraser Transit Authority would certainly be a new type of bureaucracy designed to fit the needs of people south of the Fraser and not the needs of the people in Vancouver."

Johnson would also like to see an outsider come in and do a complete audit of our transit system.

"We are really wearing rose coloured glasses when we see our own problems and when people outside of the region start looking in they just shake their heads."

He adds politicians south of the Fraser should take note because despite ever-increasing taxes, there is little improvement to the actual transit system.

"Vancouver is being subsidized by the rest of the Valley and our transit concerns are going unheeded."

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