Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, along with Langley Township Mayor Eric Woodward, are advocating for HandyDART to be brought in-house under government control.

Seven other mayors and city councils from across Metro Vancouver have joined Sim and Woodward.

Currently, HandyDART is contracted by a foreign corporation.

HandyDART is a door-to-door shared transit service for people who are not able to use conventional public transit, such as seniors or people with disabilities.

“Sometimes the private sector operator doesn’t have the proper training for some of them, and they are suffering in their ability to get to doctors’ appointments and really basic life things they need to deal with,” Mayor Woodward told CityNews.

TransLink currently contracts the service to the French company Transdev, but the

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