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Articles to create

If you have the time, inclination or knowledge, please expand BC Transit systems and update the Template:BC Transit Systems. I have included references to municipal sites that have local information in addition to what is available from the bctransit.com website. There are many variants used of the official name, with "regional" and/or "system" often being dropped from common usage, although included in the legal name. Names compiled below are sourced from city websites, press releases, bus pictures, etc., and if there is no other information, the legal name is used by default. If you know better, change the name and create the article. Thank you.-Secondarywaltz (talk) 23:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Larger systems

• TransLink (Vancouver) - Greater Vancouver
• Victoria Regional Transit System - Victoria
• ValleyMAX - Abbotsford/Mission (Central Fraser Valley)
• Kamloops Transit - City of Kamloops

http://www.kamloops.ca/transportation/transit.shtml

• Kelowna Regional Transit - Kelowna

http://www.kelowna.ca/CM/Page468.aspx

• Nanaimo Regional Transit - Nanaimo

http://www.rdn.bc.ca/cms.asp?wpID=127

• Prince George Transit System - Prince George
• Whistler and Valley Express - Whistler & Pemberton Valley

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Problem with wording

Originally known as the British Columbia Electric Railway, a division of BC Hydro, BC Transit was created in 1972 as the provincial government nationalized the BC Hydro systems.

Hm, well, y'see, it was already nationalized because it was part of BC Hydro...and the buses had worn the "BCH" or "BC Hydro" acronym and/or logo since the BCER's nationalization in the '50s.....So more like "Transit in the region was originally operated by the British Columbia Electric Railway, which under the acronym BCE operated bus fleets after the city's original electric railway was ripped up to make vehicle operation safer [allegedly].....when BCER was made a crown corporation as BC Hydro in 1958 (?), the bus fleet became a division of BC Hydro and operated as such until 1972....etc".....and if I'm not mistaken, it was the new NDP regime that year which created the new transit body....Skookum1 (talk) 08:44, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

The wording is awkward regardless of historical accuracy. A province cannot "nationalize" anything. phreakydancin (talk) 02:02, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Tiers?

Can anybody elaborate on what the tiered system means? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.114.87.70 (talk) 20:17, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

• Read the BC Transit Service Plan 2005-2008, which references the section. Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:22, 2 October 2013 (UTC)