NDP's transit strategy gives Metro mayors what they want

VICTORIA — When the B.C. NDP government handed over control of the Pattullo Bridge to Metro Vancouver politicians in 1999, it was part of an ambitious plan to give municipal politicians their much-demanded authority to develop and finance the Lower Mainland’s transit network through a new entity called TransLink.
TransLink chairman George Puil used public transit to travel to the big press conference announcing the deal on April 1, 1999. Vancouver Sun reporter Harold Munro (now