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

March 21, 2025 at 8:45 pm  Federal, Politics

Backgrounder


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

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.

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