Richmond News
But TransLink is strapped for cash. “It’s absolutely critical that TransLink find more sources of sustainable, reliable funding,” said Mayor Malcolm Brodie, who sits …
Metro Vancouver to vote on regional garbage sorting plants
Vancouver Sun
Metro Vancouver will vote today on whether to create regional garbage-sorting plants that would extract recyclables from waste. The move follows concerns that commercial garbage haulers were taking their waste to Abbotsford because of lower tipping fees in the Fraser Valley. Metro estimates it loses $5 million a year in tipping fees — local charges for dumping garbage…
Hands off farmland, Metro Vancouver tells port
Richmond Review
Metro Vancouver directors are calling on the port authority to agree not to turn scarce farmland into more shipping terminals…
Brodie rode Canada Line, but defends hotel stays
Richmond News
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie said he chose to use the Canada Line to commute back and forth to a recent municipal convention in downtown Vancouver. However, he says how far away and how busy politicians are can change the equation...
Metro Vancouver short lists waste-to-energy bidders
Surrey Leader
The company that operates Metro Vancouver’s existing garbage incinerator is one of several bidders now short-listed by the regional district to build a new waste-to-energy plant…
Metro sending 25 people to sniff out sewage plants in Washington
Vancouver Sun
Metro Vancouver will send a 25-member contingent to Washington state to conduct “sniff tests” on U.S. sewage plants as it pursues a new $400-million Lion’s Gate sewage treatment facility…
Proposed referendum on TransLink funding will delay projects, mayors argue
Vancouver Sun
The B.C. Liberals’ proposed referendum on the future of TransLink funding is being met with opposition by regional mayors, who say waiting for a vote 18 months from now could delay much-needed transit projects, especially south of the Fraser…
More Metro Vancouver mayors oppose transit funding referendum
Surrey Leader
Several Metro Vancouver mayors are blasting what they say is the potentially disastrous election promise of the BC Liberals to put any new taxes or tolls for TransLink to a regional referendum…
Metro Vancouver cities strong at attracting foreign dollars
Global News
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie says a goal of providing ‘one-stop shopping’ for new businesses is one of the benefits of doing business in the city…
Metro Vancouver mayors lay out transit funding ideas
CBC News
The mayors were asked by the province to come up with long- and short-term funding solutions. “And every time there’s been a proposal made the province has been quite quick to shoot it down,” said Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie. “I don’t see any reason that they’re going to do something else this time, but we were charged with a responsibility to come up with funding sources.”