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On July 30, 1998, the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Act received assent from the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.The Act, held up by urban planners as an exemplar for its unambiguous linkage of urban land use planning and transportation issues, established the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (TransLink) as the coordinating agency for transportation planning, the delivery of transit services, major arterial roads, and air quality programs that support the Greater Vancouver Regional District's (GVRD) Livable Region Strategic Plan (LRSP).The Act also provided TransLink with revenue sources that are the envy of other urban metropolitan regions across Canada, including gasoline, property, and parking taxes, as well as the ability to establish tolls on new roads in the region.Yet despite these unprecedented powers within the Canadian urban context, TransLink has experienced significant problems in implementing its initial regional transportation agenda.This thesis presents the hypothesis that during preparations of its Stratepic Transportation Plan 2000-2005, TransLink failed to consider the potential for outside actors to formulate an alternative transportation agenda for the region.With respect to outside actors, this thesis hypothesizes that there exists more than one type of outside actor, which deviates from scholarly work to date.In this case, this thesis proposes that outside actors can be categorised on the basis of resources and motivations for action.Stemming from the mobilization of outside actors, this thesis hypothesizes that institutional actors can use a variety of substantive and procedural instruments to influence an institutional agenda.In this case, it is evident that TransLink deployed a variety of instruments against outsider actors: first, to discredit the outside organizations, and second, to incorporate the agendas presented by outsiders following the collapse of a proposed fimding mechanism to pay for urban transportation improvements.Many people had a hand in the writing of this thesis.
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