Highlights from City of Langley September 29, 2025 Regular Council meeting.
Please note these are not the official minutes, but rather, highlights of items approved by Council and do not reflect all items considered by Council at the meeting.
Request for Support to Bring HandyDart Service In-House
Council passed the following resolution:
WHEREAS HandyDART is a vital door-to-door transit service for seniors and people with disabilities who cannot access conventional public transit without assistance;
AND WHEREAS the current outsourced HandyDART model has resulted in long-standing issues relating to service reliability concerns, safety issues, and increased reliance on subcontracted taxi services;
AND WHEREAS the BC NDP committed to bringing HandyDART in-house during the last provincial election, and multiple municipalities across Metro Vancouver have passed resolutions in support of this transition;
AND WHEREAS in 2023 , City Council became a signatory to “Save our HandyDART Coalition’s open letter to the province which included a request that the TransLink Board develop and implement a plan to bring HandyDART in-house as a subsidiary of TransLink;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Langley City Council formally endorse the transition of HandyDART services to a publicly operated, in-house model under TransLink;
AND THAT Council send a letter of support to the TransLink Board of Directors and the Honourable Mike Farnworth, Minister of Transportation and Transit, urging the Government of BC to act on this commitment and prioritize the transition in THIS upcoming provincial budget;
AND THAT this resolution be shared with the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation and the Save Our HandyDART Coalition.