View Royal Mayor David Screech said he was B次元官网网址渇rustratedB次元官网网址� that council has not ensured all communities in the area have representation in the Victoria Regional Transit Commission at some point.
B次元官网网址淭here has never been a View Royal voice on the transit commission,B次元官网网址� Screech said.
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The Victoria regional transit board recently appointed five new members to the eight-person commission. Mayor Rob Martin of Colwood was reappointed as the sole member representing West Shore.
Screech added that he doesnB次元官网网址檛 understand the reasoning behind the decision and noted the position is supposed to rotate around.
A letter to the minister asking for a change in how appointments were made was sent over a year ago and received no response, Screech said. He resent the letter a few months ago and said he hasnB次元官网网址檛 heard back.
The commission provides B次元官网网址渞ecommendations to BC Transit on routes and service levelsB次元官网网址� in addition to setting transit fares and local taxes in the region, according to the B.C. government website.
B次元官网网址淲e feel that thereB次元官网网址檚 nobody at that table that is talking about the gaps in transit in View Royal that needs to be looked after,B次元官网网址� Screech said.
He pointed to how some residents in the subdivision close to Thetis Lake have to walk over 2.5 kilometres to get to the closest bus stop. People in the Riverside area on the other side of Thetis Lake Park suffer B次元官网网址済enuinely terribleB次元官网网址� transit service times that just B次元官网网址渋snB次元官网网址檛 good enough,B次元官网网址� he said.
The mayor of Central Saanich has also shared this frustration and asked for a seat on the commission. The mayor of North Saanich, by comparison, has been reappointed. B次元官网网址淭he only people that have the power to change this is the provincial government, so they need to update it to make it more representative of our communities,B次元官网网址� Screech said.
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