Today, wear a “Be Part of the Solution” button and pay only 25¢ per ride.

 

You can get a free button anywhere you usually buy transit passes, including: City Hall, any Shoppers Drug Mart location, Hart Drugs, CNC and UNBC Bookstores, Reid’s Prescriptions, and Third Ave Evergreen Pharmacy.

 

Provincially,  the government has launched an air action plan which allocates $28.5 million over three years to improve and enhance air quality across the
province.

The BC Air Action Plan outlines a total of 28 initiatives that will reduce air pollution and improve air quality across B.C. 

The plan is designed to address air pollution from all sources - from transportation and industry to everyday activities, such as woodstove operation and vehicle idling. Some of the 28 actions identified in the plan have already been initiated, with all actions expected to be in place by 2009.

Actions already underway include:

* Making clean diesel retrofit technology mandatory in older commercial transport diesel vehicles.
* Investing $2.5 million over three years on the Green Fleets B.C. partnership to reduce vehicle emissions and improve air quality.
* Dedicating $1.1 million to retrofit all B.C. school buses with clean technologies to reduce harmful particulate matter from diesel emissions.
* Working with other ministries to develop a Provincial Idle Reduction Initiative.
* Investing $1 million over three years into an exchange program to replace older, inefficient woodstoves with new, cleaner-burning models.
* Dedicating $600,000 over three years to advance air quality research through the new B.C. CLEAR Fund to support innovative research on air quality protection and on the health impacts of air pollution.
* Investing $15 million to expand the successful Scrap-It program, which gives people incentives of up to $2,000 to take older, high-emission vehicles off the roads.