BC Transit is a provincial crown agency responsible for coordinating the delivery of public transportation within British Columbia, Canada, outside of Greater Vancouver. BC Transit is headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia.
Originally known as the British Columbia Electric Railway, a division of BC Hydro after 1961, BC Transit was created in 1972 as the provincial government nationalized the BC Hydro systems. In 1978, the province separated the transit authority into a separate agency called the Urban Transit Authority which was later renamed as BC Transit.
BC Transit carries out overall planning and delivery for all of the different municipal transit systems in British Columbia. In 1999, responsibility for the management of transportation in Greater Vancouver, including public transit, was taken over by TransLink. In the future, TransLink's jurisdiction is planned to expand into adjacent regions east and north of Greater Vancouver.
For more details on the TransLink expansion, see TransLink 2007 reorganization.Read more about BC Transit: Transit Systems
Famous quotes containing the word transit:
“We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn’t matter so much as it seemed to do—it’s not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn’t matter so much.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)