TransLink will ask residents whether they support the SkyTrain option and what they think overall should be done to improve transit in Surrey and Langley
The move to survey Surrey residents on transit options comes after Doug McCallum, seen here on July 7, 2014, was elected mayor last fall in part on a pledge to cancel plans for light rail in favour of a subway-like system that would be much more expensive.Planners for the Greater Vancouver region’s transit authority are conducting extensive public consultations this month to discover what Surrey residents really want for new transit.
The public consultations will take the form of open houses and online surveys. Those being consulted will have an array of choices that have high costs attached to them during the feedback period, which ends April 26. But if the Surrey-to-Langley line becomes SkyTrain, that uses up, according to preliminary estimates, at least $2.9-billion. That leaves $600,000 for something serving the Guildford and Newton lines.
The public feedback about support and options will go to the TransLink mayors’ council July 25, when the council decides whether to put the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain proposal forward as a business case to the federal and provincial governments.
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