British Columbia

===Public transit===
[[File:Mark III SkyTrain near Nanaimo station.jpg|thumb|[[SkyTrain (Vancouver)|SkyTrain]] is the rail rapid transit system that serves Metro Vancouver.]]
[[File:Flyer trolleybuses on the Granville Mall in 2019.jpg|thumb|[[Trolley buses in Vancouver]]]]
Prior to 1979, surface [[public transport|public transit]] in the Vancouver and Victoria metropolitan areas was administered by BC Hydro, the provincially owned electricity utility. Subsequently, the province established [[BC Transit]] to oversee and operate all municipal transportation systems. In 1998, the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, now [[TransLink (British Columbia)|TransLink]], a separate authority for routes within the Greater Vancouver Regional District, was established. Some smaller island communities, such as [[Gabriola Island]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gabriolacommunitybus.com/about/history/ |title=History: GERTIE: Gabriola's Environmentally Responsible Trans Island Express |website=GERTIE |access-date=November 13, 2018 |archive-date=July 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727015217/https://gabriolacommunitybus.com/about/history/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and, formerly, [[Pender Island]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://penderbus.org/about |title=About the Bus |website=Pender Island Community Bus |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113210800/http://penderbus.org/about |archive-date=November 13, 2018 |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://penderbus.org/routes/alerts#alert-23 |title=Community Bus Pilot Project Ending |website=Pender Island Community Bus |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110235046/http://penderbus.org/routes/alerts#alert-23 |archive-date=January 10, 2019 |access-date=January 10, 2019}}</ref> operate routes independent of BC Transit or TransLink. BC Transit has recently expanded to provide intercity routes,<ref>{{Cite news |last=McElroy |first=Justin |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-northern-bus-transit-may-2018-1.4683199 |title=B.C. government launches new bus service for northern half of the province |date=May 29, 2018 |access-date=November 13, 2018 |publisher=CBC |agency=CBC |archive-date=November 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181102040048/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-northern-bus-transit-may-2018-1.4683199 |url-status=live }}</ref> particularly in the Northern region of British Columbia. Other intercity routes were introduced connecting southern communities in preparation of the cancellation of [[Greyhound Canada]]'s pullout from Western Canada,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bctransit.com/kamloops/schedules-and-maps/health-connections |title=Health Connections |website=BC Transit Kamloops |publisher=BC Transit |access-date=November 13, 2018 |archive-date=November 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113210647/https://bctransit.com/kamloops/schedules-and-maps/health-connections |url-status=live }}</ref> though options for intercity bus travel are still extremely limited.

Public transit in British Columbia consists mainly of diesel buses, although Vancouver is also serviced by a fleet of [[trolley bus]]es. Several experimental buses are being tested such as [[hybrid electric vehicle|hybrid]] buses that have both gasoline and electric engines. Additionally, there are CNG-fuelled buses being tested and used in Nanaimo and Kamloops systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Fleet |url=http://bctransit.com/*/about/fleet |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818214911/https://bctransit.com/*/about/fleet |archive-date=August 18, 2017 |access-date=April 21, 2017 |publisher=[[BC Transit]]}}</ref> British Columbia also tested a fleet of Hydrogen-fuelled buses for the Vancouver-Whistler Winter Olympics in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chfca.ca/say-h2i/cars-and-buses/bc-transit-fuel-cell-bus-fleet |title=Case Study – BC Transit Fuel Cell Bus Fleet |publisher=Chfca.ca |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330182706/http://www.chfca.ca/say-h2i/cars-and-buses/bc-transit-fuel-cell-bus-fleet |archive-date=March 30, 2017 |access-date=April 21, 2017}}</ref> TransLink operates [[SkyTrain (Vancouver)|SkyTrain]], an automated [[rapid transit|metro]] system serving the cities of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Surrey, Richmond, Coquitlam, and Port Moody. In 2009, the Canada Line SkyTrain was completed, linking Vancouver International Airport and the city of Richmond to downtown Vancouver bringing the total to three operating metro lines.

A new extension to Coquitlam and [[Port Moody]] (the [[Evergreen Extension]] of the [[Millennium Line]]) was completed in December 2016. Construction of an extension of the Millennium Line westwards through Vancouver to Arbutus Street began in February 2021,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Kenneth |date=February 2, 2021 |title=Demolition begins ahead of Broadway Subway's major construction work |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broadway-subway-demolition-work-february-2021 |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=Daily Hive}}</ref> with future plans to extend the line farther west from [[Arbutus station]] to the [[University of British Columbia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/skytrain-extension-ubc-1.5021463|title=Metro Vancouver mayors vote yes on SkyTrain extension to UBC | date=February 15, 2019 |work=CBC News |access-date=February 16, 2019}}</ref> Fare gates have been added to all existing stations, though in the past, SkyTrain used a proof of payment honour system. In the capital city of Victoria, BC Transit and the provincial government's infrastructure ministry are working together to create a bus rapid transit from the Westshore communities to downtown Victoria.<ref>{{cite web |title=Victoria Region Transit Priority Corridors |url=http://bctransit.com/victoria/transit-future/victoria-transit-priority-corridors |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509141533/http://bctransit.com/victoria/transit-future/victoria-transit-priority-corridors |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |access-date=May 17, 2017 |publisher=[[BC Transit]]}}</ref> In [[Kamloops]], there is a bus rapid transit GPS trial underway to see how bus rapid transit affects smaller cities, rather than larger ones, like Victoria and Vancouver.<ref>{{cite news|title=Firm selected to study fixed-link rapid transit for North Shore – Kamloops.me|url=https://kamloops.me/2019/10/03/firm-selected-to-study-fixed-link-rapid-transit-for-north-shore/,%20https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019TRAN0173-001910/|access-date=February 14, 2021|website=kamloops.me|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>