Our B.C. caucus met with five of the mayors from the greater Vancouver regional district to discuss transportation and TransLink. Our government has doubled the amount of gas tax funding to municipalities. The message we got from the mayors was that they receive over $100 million a year from the gas tax funding, and they've bought all the buses they need, and they feel that their capital expenditures are great, but the operation and maintenance is what's hindering the further build-out of their transportation system. Can you comment on that? Is it because you're not charging enough in fees for the use of transit, or are there some other challenges that need to be met?
On June 18th, 2009. See this statement in context.