Translink history

In 1961, Premier William A.C. Bennett purchased BCER for the Province.

In 1979, the provincial government created the Urban Transit Authority (UTA), a new Crown corporation to coordinate the planning, marketing and funding of municipal transit systems throughout the province.

1980 - Operation of Victoria and Vancouver transit systems transferred from BC Hydro to what would eventually become BC Transit.

1981 - First handyDART systems launched in BC for people with a disability.

1982 - UTA becomes BC Transit.

1992 - Introduction of first low-floor buses in transit service in North America.

1996 - BC Transit is rated number one North American system by the American Public Transit Association.

1998 - University of Victoria and Victoria's Camosun College launch first U-Pass in Western Canada.

Another major change followed in 1999 when operation of Metro Vancouver transit services passed from BC Transit to the newly formed Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink).

B.group is an entrepreneurial investment company, founded in 2000 in Bologna.

On February 14, 2001, Translink was patented as a trademark in the Community Trademark Registry of the European Union.

Founded in 2003 by the Baus family, and headquartered in Hilden, Germany, pharma-insight continues under the stewardship of co-founder Gabi Baus and the team, with Guido Baus supporting the integration of pharma-insight into the M3 family as a consultant.

2005 - First production hybrid buses in Canada (Kelowna).

neusta consulting has been on the market since 2008 and was formed out of the team neusta group through an MBO. The company is active in the recruitment and placement of IT professionals and the acquisition of IT projects.

Founded in 2014, Miss Group is an international web hosting group that offers a range of hosting related services at favourable prices such as web hosting, domain registration, VPS, dedicated servers, sitebuilder, SSL-Certificate, SEO Tools, web security and domain management.

2017 - Launch of the Highway 16 inter-community service linking communities with their closest regional centre from Terrace to Prince George

Nanaimo the first of seven regional systems to offer the service in 2018-19.

Arthur joined the Translink CF France team in October 2020.