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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.

Update on Save Craigflower Creek

Angela Hanes has written to update the ACS community on the efforts to Save Craigflower Creek.

Hello all and hope you and yours have been keeping well.

Many would have received either a flyer or a communication from Transit showing the projects’ progress and a request to complete a survey. I encourage you to do so AND answer questions they aren’t asking. We all have many more concerns that aren’t addressed in the questionnaire. https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/s.aspx?s=284B4297-AB5B-44AB-BD07-40B62AD2AABB&fbclid=IwAR3GlrcyuJdQBShH8c4eURfrpGoekDFd_m6FSm9J9_o82-U9sD-893IbHTs

**note that as of March ’20 (pre Covid) transit had not communicated with either Songhees or Esquimalt Nations.

That said, I haven’t given up yet and hope you haven’t either. This is all part of the process. Once we get clearance, a plan for a rally and getting more media attention will be underway. This was being planned for the end of March/ early April but Covid sidelined these efforts.

Lastly, a heartfelt thank you for all those who donated to the Go Fund Me campaign. We just received $500 from the Esquimalt Anglers!!! https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-craigflower-creek

Hope to have an update on this shortly!Don’t lose faith my friends, this is the long game.

Angela

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!