CHAMBER WEEK: Businesses find benefit in better transit links

February 20, 2025

Everyone who drives regularly on Langley’s 200 Street knows that it can get very busy at certain times of day.

For many, that means a slowdown during their morning commute. But for mobile businesses in the area, it can mean a slowdown for all their workers.

“I have a team of 65 nurses and caregivers that need to get out into the Langley community,” said Kristina Bradley, owner of Nurse Next Door and a director of the Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce.

The in-home nursing business means that Bradley’s employees head out every day to Surrey, Langley, and Abbotsford, and slow or gridlocked traffic means each caregiver can see fewer patients in a day.

Although all of Bradley’s workers have to drive, that’s why she’s positive about improved transit systems in the region.

In 2024, TransLink announced the Langley and Maple Ridge would host one of the first three Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines it has planned for the Lower Mainland. A BRT line is a separated lane for express buses. There are relatively few stops – the Langley-Haney Place line would have just eight between the Willowbrook shopping centre and the Carvolth transit exchange, and 13 in total.

But the idea is to move people quicker than conventional buses that share the road with other cars and trucks. A BRT could be about 40 per cent faster than conventional buses, TransLink believes.

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