Our public transit authority is losing $75 million every month. Before the pandemic, 40 per cent of residents took public transit in Beijing, according to the U.S.-based Institute for Transportation & Development Policy. In 1991, just nine per cent of people in Metro Vancouver took transit, while 83 per cent drove. In the last census, before the COVID-19 crisis, 20 per cent of people took transit while 65 per cent drove. Only nine per cent of people in Metro Vancouver took transit in 1991 while 83 per cent drove.

Source: CBC News April 26, 2020 12:56 UTC