Seniors Transportation Advocacy Committee

Beverley Pitman holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA and has spent nearly 20 years leading healthy aging initiatives with United Way British Columbia. She has played a key role in advancing seniors’ transportation and mobility in BC, including co-creating the Seniors on the Move initiative and the Provincial Working Group on Seniors’ Transportation. Bev continues to support the Aging in Motion (AIM) grant and advance age-friendly transportation initiatives across the province. 

Carole is long time community educator and advocate and since 2012, she has focused her energies on calling Western seniors to reclaim a purposeful role as elders and get engaged on behalf of a just and secure future for younger and future generations of life on earth.  She has been a Director of SPEC since 1997 and Guiding Elder for the past decade.  She leads the SPEC Elders Circle, serves on the national Steering Committee and co-chairs the BC HUB of Seniors for Climate.  She authors materials and offers workshops and courses on becoming an Elder and is a frequent public speaker. Carole has served on many community boards and advisory councils, including past chair of the Vancouver Food Policy Council.  She is a master gardener, a creative cook with her partner Rick, an avid jazz vocalist, and dedicated meditation practitioner.  In 2018 she received the City of Vancouver Award of Excellence and in 2025, she received the King Charles III Coronation Medal, both acknowledging her decades of volunteer work in the community.

David Dunne was a road safety expert with over 20 years of experience in health promotion primarily focused on road user health and safety. His work experiences include co-founder and former Director of Insight Driving Solutions Inc, the Director of Road Safety Strategies for the BCAA Road Safety Foundation and various road safety related positions at ICBC. He participated in numerous advisory roles including the 2010 BC Driver Fitness Guidelines, child safety seat legislation amendments and Provincial Health Officers Report on Road Safety. Mr. Dunne has been a presenter at numerous conferences, workshops and other professional development and public forums on various road safety related topics. David has been involved with various organizations working to keep road users safe including the former Chair of BC Injury Prevention Alliance, a Steering Committee member of Seniors On The Move and a member of Provincial Road Safety, Road Users Working Group.

Former teacher and cab driver, Diane Jones is known for her boundless energy. She is committed to her church, her co-op, as well as the community at large. More importantly, she strives to find fun in life. Suddenly without a car, she is adjusting to the city’s transportation system, with special emphasis on connecting with the drivers.

Dr. Jones is a Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Medicine, the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Western University in London, Canada. Recently he was the Vice Dean, Basic Medical Sciences in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. He received a BSc (H) in 1972 and an MSc in 1974 from the University of Alberta and his PhD in 1977 from the University of Calgary. After an MRC post-doctoral fellowship, he was appointed an Assistant Professor at Western on July 1, 1980, joint between the Department of Medicine and the Department of Physiology (later merged with the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutic to become the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology).

During his academic career he has published 175 peer-reviewed papers plus 50 book chapters and position papers and 385 abstracts and has presented over 170 invited lectures. He has supervised over 150 Post-doctoral Fellows, Graduate Students and Senior Undergraduate Research Project Students. He has been on the Executive of many National and International Scientific Committees and Granting Councils as well as Associate Editor and reviewer for National and International Journals.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (1990), a Fellow of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (2016) and a Fellow of the American Physiological Society (2019). His recent research interests covered the areas from the gene to the population with emphasis on brain limbic and autonomic function and cardiac arrhythmia including developing tools for diagnosis as well as tools and techniques for virtually reality guided, minimally invasive, robotic-assisted cardiac surgery.

Over many decades, he has been on the Executives of many local and National Charities and non-profit organizations as Secretary, Treasurer and President. He is on the investment Committee of a Trust fund. He has retired to live in Victoria, B. C. where he is President of his Strata Council and Board Chair of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) Vancouver Island Chapter, Co-Chair of the Seniors Transportation Advocacy Committee (STAC) of Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) and a member of the Elder Friendly Community Network of Victoria.

Susan Bains is a White Rock City Councillor and accessibility advocate, elected in the September 27, 2025 by-election. She made history as the first South Asian councillor, the first person with a physical disability, and a mother of young children to serve on council. With over 15 years of experience in human resources, entrepreneurship, and community leadership, Susan is known for her collaborative, results-driven approach and commitment to inclusion.

A resident of White Rock for more than 18 years, she has built her life and raised her family in the community she now represents. After developing a spinal cord condition in 2021 and becoming a wheelchair user, Susan gained a new perspective that deepened her advocacy for accessibility.

She champions inclusive design and equitable opportunities, working with community partners to create welcoming spaces. Guided by integrity and respect, she believes in listening and leading with courage.