B.C.'s mid-sized cities are densifying. But where are the buses?

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Catching a bus in a mid-sized British Columbia city can be a trying experience. Buses arrive and depart at sporadic times and tend to disappear on evenings and weekends.

But as B.C.’s local governments try to improve their cities’ transit options, they have been told the province doesn’t have enough money to pay its share.

That has left local politicians upset and increasingly pointing out that a key plank in the province’s housing strategy is being undermined by a lack of funding for local buses.

In Penticton, Coun. Isaac Gilbert said the lack of funding for his city’s transit ambitions flew in the face of the province’s own housing policies.

At a council meeting this spring, Gilbert said he