Conservative MLA Steve Kooner Demands NDP Honour Promise to Keep Queensborough School Bus
“The Queensborough School Bus Service must continue beyond June 2026. Over 230 students rely on this bus every day for a safe eleven-kilometre roundtrip journey over the Queensborough Bridge to school. Abruptly ending the service forces parents and students into a difficult and unfair situation.”
– Steve Kooner, Critic for Attorney General & MLA for Richmond-Queensborough
NEW WESTMINSTER, BC: Steve Kooner, Official Opposition Critic for Attorney General and MLA for Richmond–Queensborough, is demanding the NDP provincial government immediately reverse their plan to cancel the Queensborough School Bus Service to New Westminster Secondary School. The bus has been operating since January 2024.
The School District emailed families that this will be the “final year” of the program — a decision in direct contradiction of both the NDP’s October 8, 2024 campaign promise to make the service permanent and free, and personal assurances from NDP Education Minister Lisa Beare during Estimates Debates in April 2025 that a lasting solution was being secured with the School District and TransLink.
“The Queensborough School Bus Service must continue beyond June 2026,” said MLA Kooner. “Over 230 students rely on this bus every day for a safe eleven-kilometre roundtrip journey over the Queensborough Bridge to school. Abruptly ending the service forces parents and students into a difficult and unfair situation.”
MLA Kooner has written to Minister Beare urging her to honour the NDP government’s public commitments by extending the service beyond June 2026. “The NDP have made a clear promise — and it’s time they kept it,” MLA Kooner concluded.
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