Tri-City residents can have their say on a funding plan for transportation improvements - including the Evergreen Line - at a meeting next week organized by TransLink..
CEO Ian Jarvis will attend the meeting on TransLink's Moving Forward plan to discuss the issues and take questions about the plan to upgrade transit services and build the $1.4-billion Burnaby-to-Coquitlam rapid transit system.
The plan proposes a two-cent-per-litre increase in fuel taxes beginning in April 2012 plus, by 2013, either a property tax increase averaging about $23 per year for the average Metro Vancouver home or a new, long-term source of funding.
Funds will be used to contribute $400 million toward the Evergreen Line as well as pay for improvements to rapid bus, Seabus and B-lines, and cycling route enhancements.
The meeting will be held Thursday, Sept. 15 at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For more information about the plan, visit www.translink.ca.
SFU BUS CHANGE
A local bus route serving Simon Fraser University on Burnaby Mountain will see additional service during peak periods starting immediately. The No. 143 SFU/Coquitlam Station will run every 15 minutes until 7:30 a.m. and every 10 minutes until 8 a.m.
