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Phone: 250-953-3777

Email: ptboard@gov.bc.ca

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9am - 5pm

Tuesday

9am - 5pm

Wednesday

9am - 5pm

Thursday

9am - 5pm

Friday

9am - 5pm

General information

The Passenger Transportation Board (Board) is an independent administrative tribunal in B.C. established under the Passenger Transportation Act. 

The Board's primary responsibility is to make decisions on special authorization applications relating to: 

  • Passenger directed vehicle authorizations (e.g. taxis, limousines, shuttle vans)
  • Inter-city bus authorizations
  • Ride-hailing (TNS) authorizations 

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Policy manual

Policy manual

Effective: Sepetember 15, 2023

Updated: April 16, 2025

Table of contents

  • PDF version of Policy Manual: Passenger Transportation Board Policy Manual(719 KB)
  • Definitions
  • Accessible taxis
  • Access to information and privacy
  • Activation of licences
  • Appeal - Administrative penalty
  • Board investigations - Section 7
  • Board investigations - Section 27
  • Capable
  • Constitutional questions
  • Contracts and additional vehicles
  • Controlling members
  • Discount certificates
  • Eco-friendly taxis
  • Eco-friendly taxis - Appendix A
  • Engaged carrier authorizations
  • Fit and proper
  • Inter-city bus minimum route frequency
  • Operating areas
  • Passenger transportation regions
  • Place names
  • Public need
  • Rates
    1. Rates orders policy
    2. Rates rules policy
  • Reconsiderations
  • Social media
  • Sound economic conditions
  • Specialty vehicles
  • Submissions - Applications
  • System decision - Rates
  • Taxi rate harmonization and equalization
  • Temporary Operating Permits (TOPs)
  • Transfers - Administrative
  • Urgent public need
  • Vehicle capacity and banding

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Territorial acknowledgement

The Passenger Transportation Board acknowledges the traditional territories of the many diverse Indigenous Peoples in the geographic areas we serve.

 

With gratitude and respect, we acknowledge that the Board’s office is located on the traditional unceded territories of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples (Songhees and Esquimalt), who are the traditional keepers of this land and whose historical relationships with this land continue today.

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