GREATER VANCOUVER Communities to fight transit levy hike demanded. adds $5.31 to each B.C. Hydro bill. The “taxation without representa- tion” that makes citizens bear an increasing share of public transit costs must be withdrawn, a newly-formed coalition of community groups: has The “transit levy campaign,” set to be launched July 2, has targetted the 231-per cent increase in the Lower Mainland’s regional transit levy that Jean Swanson of the Solidarity Coalition, one of the sponsoring Remove ‘time bomb’ from cit waterfront, coalition demand _ Alarm and anger raised by a coalition of citizens groups and trade unions over the location of a hazardous commodities ship- ment dock has highlighted the long- standing demands for removal of all such substances from Greater Vancouver’s “inner harbor.” The Vancouver Waterfront Coalition has hit the federal government for breaking a promise to remove dangerous cargoes from the port by January of this year and for relocating the transshipment point to the aging Burlington Northern Railway ferry slip. Meanwhile, the Vancouver and District Labor Council’s transshipment of danger- ous commodities committee has demanded that a plan for removal of the substances from the region be struck and that regulat- ing authority be ceded to a local body. At a public meeting in Strathcona neigh- borhood last week the coalition’s Shane _ begins next year. groups, says the campaign will also focus on the demand to renegotiate a transit-cost sharing agreement with the provincial government that forces municipalities to hike taxes to alle- viate the staggering debt incurred by the Skytrain rapid transit system. . Last month the Council of Senior Citizens Organizations passed