McCallum proposes a rapid bus system for the Surrey-Newton-Guildford corridor, instead of an LRT line. McCallum wants to jump straight to that phase, using an elevated SkyTrain system. The second phase is a 16.5-kilometre line running from Surrey to Langley Centre. The transit plan for Surrey called for two new LRT transit lines starting from King George station in Surrey – one going east, the other south, connecting the station to Newton and Guildford. And maybe there will be an alternative in Surrey that uses that money, but it opens up the plan to other alternatives as well, and other priorities.” “But if they say they don’t want that, then it opens up the plan. So if Surrey says that they don’t want a component, I recognize that we’re not going to force it on them.
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“We’ve had full consultation and it’s fully funded. “The plan that has been adopted is the plan devised by the region, the mayors’ council and TransLink,” Brodie said. While Vancouver’s new mayor, Kennedy Stewart, has expressed some support for McCallum’s plan, Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie suggested McCallum may have a hard time selling other mayors on the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation on his plan. “The Surrey Board of Trade does not want transportation investments to be delayed yet again in Surrey – and that is what will happen with this new direction,” she said. But there are other regional transit projects on the drawing board too, and Surrey Board of Trade CEO Anita Huberman said she fears Surrey could lose its place at the front of the line. TransLink last week put the brakes on Surrey’s new $1.7 billion LRT system and will now reconsider a $3 billion SkyTrain system, following a motion by Surrey city council to cancel its support for the LRT system. That’s one of the fears raised last week when newly elected Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum made good on a campaign promise to pull out of a light-rail transit (LRT) plan for Surrey and insist on a more expensive SkyTrain system. The fastest-growing cities in the Lower Mainland – Surrey and Langley – desperately need some form of rapid transit.īut will the City of Surrey’s insistence on a more expensive system than what was approved mean Surrey will get bumped down the priority list in favour of other regional transit projects, like the Broadway extension to the Millennium Line?
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