In 1994, Surrey signed the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority agreement, along with the other cities in Metro Vancouver and the BC government, an agreement that ultimately created TransLink. While TransLink has made some good decisions and delivered some genuine improvements to our transit system, these have been outweighed by decades of bad management, poor decisions and provincial government interference. Over time TransLink has become just another body of faceless appointees collecting fat cheques, totally out of touch with the transportation needs of our cities.

Today, we are suffering with expensive white elephant fare collection systems which do not work effectively, and cost more money than fare evasion was ever costing us.

Today, Surrey residents who work in Vancouver pay the most in transit fare while getting worse service than the residents of Burnaby, Vancouver, New West and other cities where inter-urban fares are lower.

Proudly Surrey will retake control of our transit system and the gas taxes we pay to support it.

We will immediately begin negotiations and prepare a legal case for the BC Supreme Court to pull Surrey out of TransLink and create a local transit system in partnership with TransLink and adjacent cities, one that maintains fare transferability, rapid transit building and maintenance and interurban service

We will focus any new transit development on frequent bus service to all neighbourhoods to ensure that seniors, kids and night shift workers have a bus system that meets their basic needs

We will work with Whatcom County municipalities to create a break-even cross-border bus network connecting to Bellingham Airport, the Alaska Marine Highway terminal and other important US destinations

We will base any future rapid transit decisions on two main principles: cost-effectiveness at moving people and effectiveness at combating climate change; we cannot afford to engage in a transit politics of symbolism and style

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