Transit Service is Coming for Gloucester Businesses and Employees

TransLink is proposing a new transit connection along 56 Avenue to and from Langley Centre, improving service for Salmon River residents too.

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Businesses and employees of Gloucester Industrial Estates have been paying property taxes to TransLink for almost 20 years, without service. We have finally fixed it.

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The proposed transit connection to Gloucester Industrial Estates along 56 Avenue to and from Langley Centre.

MARCH 12TH, 2026
BY ERIC WOODWARD
KEY TAKEAWAYS
  • Businesses in Gloucester Industrial have been paying property taxes without transit service.
  • Transit service is finally expected to begin within 2026, helping businesses and employees alike.
  • Public consultation is going on now until March 25, 2026, on the proposed route along 56 Avenue.

After years of advocacy and delays, transit service is finally coming for the businesses and employees of Gloucester Industrial Estates. The first proposed route would run east-west along 56th Avenue to Langley Centre, improving service for Salmon River residents as well. In addition to this first route, we need to see a direct connection to downtown Aldergrove and the Carvolth Transit Exchange as well, so workers can access Gloucester from throughout the region.

For many years, business and property owners owners in Gloucester have been collectively taxed upwards of $2.5M+ per year to TransLink on their annual property taxes, despite having no transit service. As approved by the Mayors' Council on Regional Transportation, we finally addressed this in the TransLink 2025 Investment Plan. It's now moving forward to public consultation.

There is an online survey from yesterday, March 11th to March 25th: translink.ca/gloucester. Feedback will ensure the service proposed meets the needs of the Gloucester. Service is expected to start later this year.

There are significant benefits:

  • Employers in Gloucester will have a larger potential pool of employees that can now use transit to get to work. This has been a consistent complaint, that businesses in Gloucester had potential employees unwilling to consider their business, without transit options.

  • Many industrial workers start early, finish late, and often need transit to lower transportation costs many cannot afford. This helps working people that need transit service, especially to where jobs are, reducing the reliance on driving as the only option.

  • Fairness for property owners and businesses that are paying for transit service within the property taxes, a property tax system that ignores whether or not a property has access to transit service of any kind, or proximity, with a industrial area the size of Gloucester being a prime example. Businesses will now see service they have been paying for all along.

It's great to have this done, specifically included within the TransLink 2025 Investment Plan, working with my colleagues on the Mayors' Council. We finally have transit service to Gloucester Industrial Estates, almost done.

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economic development
employment
gloucester
rural areas
salmon river
translink
transportation
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TransLink 2025 Investment Plan
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