Bus Rapid Transit will be on the agenda when the Board of the London Downtown Business Association meets Thursday morning.
The group gets together the third Thursday of every month and this meeting will be the first since the emergence of an anti-Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) petition.
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A group of concerned Londoners calling themselves Downshift, a play on the BRT name Shift, is behind the petition, which has been signed by more than 130 downtown business owners.
The group has expressed concern there hasn’t been enough clear discussion of what the BRT plans entail.
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“We were approached and have sent in a list of three people who would just like to attend, and if they have any questions for us or anything like that, we’re more than willing to answer them,” said Downshift spokesperson Dan McDonald.
“We’d like to have a respectful monitoring of what’s being said, and what direction they’re exactly going in.”
While the Downshift group gains support in the core, another group has emerged as proponents of the BRT plan, calling themselves Shift Happens.
While many downtown businesses are expressing concern over a lack of consultation from the city, members of Shift Happens say the public has been made aware of the ongoing plans.
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“I am a little shocked that people are saying that they weren’t aware that it was happening, or that it would impact them in a direct way, because it has been on the public discourse, at least from my awareness, since the election,” said President and CEO of Ellipsis Digital David Billson, who supports BRT.
The Board of the London Downtown Business Association meeting begins at 8 a.m.
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