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View Royal HandyDART survey

We received an update from Angela Hanes about BC Transit’s somewhat contentious plan to build a HandyDART facility – read “maintenance depot – beside Craigflower Creek.

Many of you may have received a big glossy flyer in the past week showing project updates and the call to respond to a survey. As always, you need to be heard! Here is the link to the survey;
https://engage.bctransit.com/viewroyalhandydartcentre?tool=survey_tool&tool_id=survey#tool_tab

email from Angela Hanes

This is BC Transit consulting with the community. They mention the facility will support, “…a fully-electric fleet of vehicles.” While there have been announcements about the feds helping them buy 10 electric buses for our region, they seem to only show diesel vehicles in their fleet. BC Transit says all electric by 2040. We can hope they switch the small vehicles first, but you know this will happen as existing stock reaches end of service life.

Save Craigflower Creek: Updates

Update: On March 4, Angela Hanes was interviewed regarding this issue by host Adam Stirling on CFAX radio. You may listen to the recorded interview here.

The intrepid Angela Hanes provided us with news regarding the Save Craigflower Creek petition campaign, a grassroots response to BC Transit’s plan to develop a vehicle maintenance facility on land that spans the salmon-bearing Craigflower Creek.

The Black Press published an article on this topic. Angela was misquoted a few times, in one case attributing Angela with starting the petition that in fact was started by her neighbour.

West Coast Environmental Law has suggested the group apply to them for funding and referred them to a lawyer. The application is under way! To defray funding for legal and other costs associated with the campaign, a GoFundMe page has been created. Please consider a donation to this cause.

For those who’ve not yet signed and shared the petition, here it is.

Save Craigflower Creek!

The ACS board members were recently brought up-to-date by Angela Hanes on the proposed BC Transit development on a site that the salmon-bearing Craigflower Creek runs through. Besides the adverse impact to the people who make that neighbourhood their home, BC Transit to date has made no provisions in their proposal to protect this environmentally sensitive area.

We’ve placed a Word template for the “Save Craigflower Creek” letter here, and for the “open”-minded, an Open Document format template here. Please take the time to tell our elected representatives that we actually want to protect and sustain those pesky salmon!