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Momentum is building towards the Saturday, September 22 Rally and March to “Stop the Fare Increase: Transit for All!” with a growing list of endorsements from social justice, immigrant rights, environmental and trade union groups. This rally will unite transit dependent bus riders, social justice activists, trade unionists, environmentalists and other progressive people to demand an affordable, accessible, clean air, and fully public transit system as an important concrete step towards social, economic and environmental justice for our region.

The demonstration leaves from the Main St. Skytrain Station at 1 PM and will march to the Canada Line office on Granville Street downtown, where marchers plan to ‘decorate’ the fenced around Canada Line construction. The Bus Riders Union argues that the $2 billion Canada Line is cannibalizing the bus system, sucking much needed resources out of the bus system that the vast majority of transit-dependent people rely on, and is putting these resources into an unnecessary privatized rail line. The rally and march will call on TransLink, and the Provincial and Federal governments, to support an affordable, accessible, and fully public transit system for the region. Click for more…

Join us for this rally and march to expose and oppose the rapidly increasing privatization of our public transit system and demand change. What everyone is going to be shouting out is:

“TransLink: Stop the Fare Increase! Buy 500 buses by 2010.”

“Provincial Government: Stop Gateway! Invest billions in public transit not highway expansion.”

“Federal Government: Money for Public Services Not for War! Withdraw all Canadian troops from Afghanistan, money for public services not for war and occupation.”

For more information, visit the Bus Rider’s Union website

Media Contacts: BRU Office, 604 215 2775 or Aiyanas Ormond, 604 215 2662

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