NDP Releases TransLink Governance Review Panel Submissions Through Freedom of Information Request

As the B.C. Legislature debates Bill 43 to turn the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority into the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority and altering its governance structure and processes, the NDP caucus research branch has filed a freedom of information request asking for the documents the government received as submissions to the changes. The NDP in turn sent out a notification to "various transit-friendly transportation stakeholders", which evidently includes me (they did not reveal the full list of people they sent it too) asking who would be interested in the documents, and I asked to receive them. 9 PDF files each over 2 MB each later, I'm publishing them here on Urban Vancouver. They are attached at Urban Vancouver.

It's over 600 pages long (the file names refer to the number identifying the submissions, not the pages, but rest assured, it's 622 pages), so whoever wants to go through this, Talking Points Memo Muckraker document dump style, please post comments about it here. It's a little too bad that it's not searchable, since I would have loved to look for certain names or key phrases. Many of the names and identifying details of private citizens are blanked out for privacy reasons, but public officials and those representing groups are not.