The future of Metro Vancouver’s HandyDART accessible transit service hangs in the balance Wednesday as TransLink considers what it calls ‘delivery options.’

On the agenda for a public TransLink Board of Directors meeting is a discussion over whether the transit authority should stay with the current option of contracting HandyDART out to a private company or take operations in-house.

TransLink has employed France-based Transdev Group to operate the service since 2023, when Transdev acquired the previous operator.

Joe McCann, president of Amalgamated Transit Union 1724 (ATU), which represents approximately 600 HandyDART drivers, dispatchers, and maintenance workers, says the board is being asked to renew a deal with Transdev.

“We have a huge problem with that, given that the public want

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