Rule 17 – TNS minimum rates

Rule 17 – TNS minimum rates

Application

1. This rule applies to all licensees granted a special authorization with a designated TNSA.

Minimum rates

2. Licensees providing TNS services must charge rates for each ride that do not fall below the following applicable TNS minimum rates:

TNS minimum rates by passenger transportation region
TNS operating regionRegional districtsTNS minimum rates (including GST)
Region 1Metro Vancouver
Fraser Valley
Squamish-Lillooet
$4.43
Region 2Capital Regional District$6.03
Region 3Cowichan Valley
Nanaimo
Comox Valley
Alberni-Clayoquot
Strathcona
Mount Waddington
qathet (Powell River)
Central Coast
$3.94
Region 4Okanagan-Similkameen
Central Okanagan
North Okanagan
Kootenay Boundary
Central Kootenay
East Kootenay
Cariboo
Thompson-Nicola
Columbia Shuswap
$3.95
Region 5Fraser-Fort George
Bulkley-Nechako
Kitimat-Stikine
Peace River
Northern Rockies
North Coast
Sunshine Coast
Islands Trust
$3.80

3. The Board will calculate the TNS minimum rates annually.

4. The Board will send a notice to TNS licensees advising them of the new TNS minimum rates. 

(a) TNS licensees will have up to six months from the date of the notice to implement the new minimum rate changes

(b) Six months from the date of the notice, the Board will post the new TNS minimum rates in this rule. TNS licensees who have not already implemented the new minimum rate(s) will be required to implement the new posted TNS minimum rate(s) on the date it is posted on the Board website.