Transit

The Fifth Avenue 50+ Activity Centre in Salmon Arm is lobbying for a bus stop on Fifth Avenue SE with support from city council. (Martha Wickett-Salmon Arm Observer)

More fuel added to request for bus stop at Salmon Arm seniors centre

City council supports request for bus stop at 5th Avenue 50+ Activity Centre

 

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Inflation and rapid growth pushing up Kelowna’s transportation costs

$310 million has been budgeted for transportation in the city’s 10-year capital plan

 

Metro Vancouver Transit Police and Surrey RCMP investigate after the third stabbing on the city’s transit in as many weeks earlier this month. (Shane MacKichan photo)

Transit association says more police, security needed on city buses, trains

27 recommendations made to improve safety on public transit in wake of recent violence

 

Police are investigating after a stabbing at Surrey Central SkyTrain station in the early hours of Saturday, April 15, 2023. It’s the latest in several attacks on board Lower Mainland transit. (File photo: Black Press Media)

3rd stabbing in 3 weeks on Surrey transit as attacks in the Lower Mainland rise

Man in his 20s stabbed in abdomen at Surrey Central SkyTrain station

Police are investigating after a stabbing at Surrey Central SkyTrain station in the early hours of Saturday, April 15, 2023. It’s the latest in several attacks on board Lower Mainland transit. (File photo: Black Press Media)
A woman boards a transit bus in Vancouver, on Friday, March 20, 2020. Bus drivers in West Vancouver say they are the latest to experience violence on the public transit system. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Bus drivers’ union seeks better safety after ‘bloody’ fight on West Vancouver bus

Union says one rider was harassing others then attacked passenger who tried to intervene

A woman boards a transit bus in Vancouver, on Friday, March 20, 2020. Bus drivers in West Vancouver say they are the latest to experience violence on the public transit system. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
British Columbia’s premier David Eby says the death of a 17-year-old who was stabbed on a bus in Surrey Wednesday is every parent’s nightmare. The teen’s death is among a series of attacks on commuters across Canada that includes a shooting on a Calgary bus on Wednesday and numerous violent incidents on transit in Edmonton and Toronto. Police officers and paramedics attend the scene of a stabbing onboard a transit bus in Surrey, B.C. on Saturday April 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Shane MacKichan

Security needed to address sense of ‘lawlessness’ on Metro Vancouver buses: union

Unifor: more visible, consistent presence of transit police and security on board buses needed

British Columbia’s premier David Eby says the death of a 17-year-old who was stabbed on a bus in Surrey Wednesday is every parent’s nightmare. The teen’s death is among a series of attacks on commuters across Canada that includes a shooting on a Calgary bus on Wednesday and numerous violent incidents on transit in Edmonton and Toronto. Police officers and paramedics attend the scene of a stabbing onboard a transit bus in Surrey, B.C. on Saturday April 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Shane MacKichan
The RCMP logo is seen outside the force’s ‘E’ division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 16, 2023. RCMP in Surrey, B.C., say a man has life-threatening injuries after being stabbed while aboard a transit bus in that city. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Transit patrols boosted after teenager dies in Surrey, B.C., bus stabbing

A number of knife attacks have taken place in Metro Vancouver transit settings in the past two weeks

The RCMP logo is seen outside the force’s ‘E’ division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 16, 2023. RCMP in Surrey, B.C., say a man has life-threatening injuries after being stabbed while aboard a transit bus in that city. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Man stabbed in an apparent random attack on Coast Mountian Bus on April 1, 2023. (Photo: Shane MacKichan, Special to Surrey Now Leader)
Man stabbed in an apparent random attack on Coast Mountian Bus on April 1, 2023. (Photo: Shane MacKichan, Special to Surrey Now Leader)
Traffic through the most populated part of the Central Okanagan around often snarls because of its heavy reliance on Highway 97. A new provincial plan promises to improve traffic throught he but BC Liberal Norm Letnick fears it will lack the necessary funding. (Jordy Cunningham/Kelowna Capital News)

Kelowna MLA wants province to speed up transportation plans on Highway 97

Norm Letnick says current government is ignoring Kelowna’s transportation needs

Traffic through the most populated part of the Central Okanagan around often snarls because of its heavy reliance on Highway 97. A new provincial plan promises to improve traffic throught he but BC Liberal Norm Letnick fears it will lack the necessary funding. (Jordy Cunningham/Kelowna Capital News)
Transit commuter Jamie O'Neill and his son Greyson, might have to move out of Chilliwack if the transit strike in the Fraser Valley persists. (Jamie O'Neill photo)

Transit strike in eastern Fraser Valley could end up costing man his job in Vancouver

‘I am looking at moving out of Chilliwack now because I am screwed,’ says commuter dad

Transit commuter Jamie O'Neill and his son Greyson, might have to move out of Chilliwack if the transit strike in the Fraser Valley persists. (Jamie O'Neill photo)
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Kelowna youth climate action group petitions to make transit public

The contract with Swedish company First Transit expires March 31

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911 services in the Columbia Shuswap Regional District are provided by E-COMM. (Facebook/E-Comm911)

Columbia Shuswap Regional District extends agreement for 911 service, awaiting system upgrade

Cost of Next Generation 911 system expected to be significant

911 services in the Columbia Shuswap Regional District are provided by E-COMM. (Facebook/E-Comm911)
Commuters wait to take the subway at Ossington Station in Toronto on Friday, June 22, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin

Public transit struggling to lure back riders amid deficits, rising costs of living

Many transit systems hiking fares in attempt to cover their own pandemic losses

Commuters wait to take the subway at Ossington Station in Toronto on Friday, June 22, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
Karanjot Singh Sodhi has been identified as one of four people killed in a Christmas Eve bus crash on the Connector. (Photo/GoFundMe)

Fundraiser started for family of a man who died in B.C. Christmas Eve bus crash

Four people died in the crash along the Okanagan Connector

Karanjot Singh Sodhi has been identified as one of four people killed in a Christmas Eve bus crash on the Connector. (Photo/GoFundMe)
Kelowna International Airport. (Black Press file photo)

Holiday travelling woes hopefully waned with shuttle between Kelowna/Vancouver airports

Kelowna Airport has partnered with Cheers! Okanagan Tours

Kelowna International Airport. (Black Press file photo)
A job action by transit workers in Vernon and Salmon Arm will see drivers forego wearing their uniforms while handing out pamphlets. (File photo)

Salmon Arm, Vernon transit workers’ job action won’t affect riders, for now

The transit workers will not be wearing uniforms to highlight wage gap, lack of pension

A job action by transit workers in Vernon and Salmon Arm will see drivers forego wearing their uniforms while handing out pamphlets. (File photo)
The policy change impacts all routes and service in the Kelowna Regional Transit System, route 90 between UBC Okanagan and Vernon, and route 70 between Penticton and Kelowna. (Contributed/BC Transit)

North Okanagan transit workers serve strike notice

Pension plan sought as employer asked to close the gap between Kelowna and Kamloops

The policy change impacts all routes and service in the Kelowna Regional Transit System, route 90 between UBC Okanagan and Vernon, and route 70 between Penticton and Kelowna. (Contributed/BC Transit)
A bus stopped at the Queensway Transit Exchange in downtown Kelowna. (Michael Rodriguez/Capital News)

Drivers to stop collecting fares in Kelowna Regional Transit dispute

Drivers started their job action on September 2 by refusing to wear company uniforms

A bus stopped at the Queensway Transit Exchange in downtown Kelowna. (Michael Rodriguez/Capital News)
Unionized Kelowna transit drivers have voted 97 per cent in favour to approve a strike vote. (File photo)

‘Can’t hire and retain professional, reliable workers’: Possible Kelowna transit strike

‘The company can’t hire and retain professional, reliable workers’

Unionized Kelowna transit drivers have voted 97 per cent in favour to approve a strike vote. (File photo)
The petition, started by Portia Zaffaroni, says TransLink need to improve their pet policy (photo by Goran Horvat from pixabay.com).

B.C. Lower Mainland pet owners want TransLink to relax pet ridership policies

A new petition is calling for dogs in carriers be able to have their heads exposed

The petition, started by Portia Zaffaroni, says TransLink need to improve their pet policy (photo by Goran Horvat from pixabay.com).