About Us
BC Transit is the provincial crown agency charged with coordinating
the delivery of public transportation throughout British Columbia
(outside the Greater Vancouver Regional District).
The corporation's mandate, as set out in the British
Columbia Transit Act, is:
"to
plan, acquire, construct or cause to be constructed public
passenger transportation systems and rail systems that support
regional growth strategies, official community plans, and
the economic development of transit service areas", [and]
"to provide for the maintenance and operation of those systems."
Organizational Scope (March 2012)
BC Transit works in partnership with 58 local government
partners to provide public transit services in over 130 communities.
- Contracts with 18 private operating companies, 5 public
operating organizations and 14 non-profit agencies
- Carried 51.6 million passenger trips in 2011/12
- Serves more than 1.5 million people in B.C.
- Operates 81 transit systems – conventional, custom
and paratransit
- Owns a fleet of 1,001 conventional and double-deck buses,
minibuses and vans
- Delivered 2,170,00 total service hours
- Had total expenditures in 2011/12 of $262 million
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