A student’s perspective
Students need transit investments now! Buses to Kwantlen University College are few and far between. We don’t even have a direct bus from the SkyTrain to the Surrey campus and the full bus regularly passes by people standing at bus stops. Environmental reasons aside, it’s hard to find the money to keep a car on the road as a student, and many of us couldn’t afford the proposed tolls for the new Port Mann bridge or the rising insurance costs and fuel prices even if we wanted to pay for them. For many of us affordability is why we moved south of the Fraser to begin with. We wanted a better quality of life in a community we could afford. Building highways won’t help us; better public transit will. If we make the wrong choices today, our kids are going to have to live with them. Isn’t it time to stop placing today’s burdens on the next generation?
