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Total system ridership in April 2023 was 10% higher than in April 2022, reaching the highest ridership level recorded since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.

Unifor: more visible, consistent presence of transit police and security on board buses needed

There's a sense of "lawlessness'' aboard buses in Metro Vancouver that will require a "culture shift'' to fix, said a director of the bus drivers union in relation to a spate of violent incidents on transit in B.C. and beyond.

Unifor: more visible, consistent presence of transit police and security on board buses needed

Metro Vancouver Transit Police say officers are deployed throughout the system based on intelligence reports and crime statistics.

VANCOUVER - There's a sense of "lawlessness" aboard buses in Metro Vancouver that will require a "culture shift" to fix, said a director of the bus drivers union in relation to a spate of violent incidents on transit in B.C. and beyond.

Violence on public transit and in city spaces across Canada has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic, Calgary police Chief Mark Neufeld said in relation to a spate of assaults in his city as well as Edmonton, Metro Vancouver and Toronto.

Unifor: more visible, consistent presence of transit police and security on board buses needed

Violence on public transit and in city spaces across Canada has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic, Calgary police Chief Mark Neufeld said in relation to a spate of assaults in his city as well as Edmonton, Metro Vancouver and Toronto.