A Congestion Relief Fund is the best way to keep Canada’s big cities moving

We need the federal government to stay on board by making a long-term commitment to the transportation infrastructure the Vancouver region needs.

Traffic streams on and off Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge in 2012. Mayors across the country are calling for a permanent, predictable, direct federal funding mechanism for public transit. Photograph courtesy of Colin Knowles

Opinion

BY JONATHAN COTE

April 10, 2019

Metro Vancouver consistently ranks as one of the best regions in the world for quality of life. But anyone who tries to get around the region knows that it is still suffering from a bad case of congestion. Our residents experience this congestion every day. It’s the overcrowding on our transit sys...

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