City of Calgary celebrated a major milestone for public transit with the groundbreaking for Phase 1 of the Green LRT SE.

Significant infrastructure investments, especially in transportation, are improving neighbourhoods across traditionally undervalued urban and suburban areas.

The Government of Canada announced TransLink will receive more than $1.5 billion in public transit funding for Metro Vancouver.

The B.C. government announced RapidBus infrastructure upgrades for Highway 1 from McKenzie Interchange through to the Six Mile area.    

The Montrose Avenue Transit Exchange in the City of Abbotsford is receiving more than $8.4 million to support upgrades.

B.C. is contributing more than $2.4 billion through TransLink to advance key transit and infrastructure priorities.

The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) has partnered with GBAC to highlight transit best practices.

COVID-19 has forced Canada’s transit authorities to grapple with the twin challenges of public health logistics and declining revenues. A new stream of federal infrastructure spending will target pandemic-resilient infrastructure.

Commuters’ willingness to jump on the bus, light-rail car or subway is expected to be a driving factor in repopulating office space in some major North American markets, including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

The recently completed $102-million deal for Toronto Don Valley Hotel & Suites heralds the development momentum attached to the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit line, now under construction across a 19-kilometre east-west stretch of the city.

Ontario recently announced plans for a new funding program to provide $30 billion over 10 years towards infrastructure projects across the province.