Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Vancouver is the largest city in North America without a downtown freeway, and is influential globally in urban development and transportation planning.
In April, during the election campaign she was expected to lose, B.C. Liberal Premier Christy Clark announced that she would hold a referendum on transit funding in Greater Vancouver. The announcement did not attract much attention at the time, as most did not think she would have the chance to follow through.
After her surprise election victory, both Clark and rookie Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone have repeated the commitment to hold a vote in conjunction with, or before, the November 2014 municipal elections.
