Backgrounder: Ensuring long-term predictable public transit funding for BC Transit with over $189 million through the Canada Public Transit Fund

Backgrounder

Through the new Canada Public Transit Fund (CPTF), the federal government is investing more than $189 million, allocated over ten years beginning in 2026. This annual public transit funding will support 33 transit systems being serviced by BC Transit. Long-term, predictable funding will upgrade, replace, or modernize public transit infrastructure for 33 transit systems serviced by BC Transit, and maintain them in a state of good repair.

Through the new Canada Public Transit Fund (CPTF ) Baseline Funding stream, the federal government is investing more than $189 million, allocated over ten years beginning in 2026. This annual, public transit funding will support 33 transit systems being serviced by BC Transit. Long-term, predictable funding will upgrade, replace, or modernize public transit infrastructure for 33 transit systems serviced by BC Transit, and maintain them in a state of good repair.

List of transit systems benefitting from BC Transit’s CPTF Baseline Funding allocation:

• Campbell River
• Central Fraser Valley Regional
• Chilliwack
• Comox Valley Regional
• Cowichan Valley Regional
• Cranbrook
• Dawson Creek
• Fort St. John
• Kamloops
• Kelowna
• Kitimat
• Merritt
• Mount Waddington
• Nanaimo
• Pemberton Valley
• Penticton
• Port Alberni
• Powell River Regional
• Prince George
• Prince Rupert and Port Edward
• Quesnel
• Salt Spring Island
• Shuswap Regional
• Skeena Regional
• South Okanagan-Similkameen Regional
• Squamish
• Sunshine Coast Regional
• Terrace Regional
• Vernon Regional
• Victoria Regional
• West Kootenay
• Whistler
• Williams Lake

*Federal funding is conditional on the submission of a capital plan and the signing of a funding agreement between BC Transit and Canada.