BC NDP’s non-support could set SkyTrain to Newton back by decades
The BC NDP have not pledged to match the BC Conservatives’ promise for SkyTrain to Newton.
The BC NDP have not pledged to match the BC Conservatives’ promise for SkyTrain to Newton.
It’s time to bring Surrey and Langley in line with the rest of the region. That means building SkyTrain to both Langley City and Newton.
We applaud the BC Conservative Party’s commitment to building a King George Boulevard SkyTrain to Newton in Surrey and clearly indicating that this will be SkyTrain, not light rail.
We have written the Minister of Transport asking to redirect funding from the Calgary LRT Green Line to the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain.
Despite recent cost increases, the SLS remains Canada’s best value transit project, costing less per-kilometre than many surface LRT proposals.
A UBC campus will be only a 22-minute SkyTrain ride from downtown Langley City.
What if Ottawa took Alstom’s advice in 2009 and built a SkyTrain-style system, instead of an LRT system that constantly derails???
We believe that no further study is required to assess the need for grade-separated rapid transit (SkyTrain) on King George Boulevard.
Despite comments that there is “no delay”, there is a clear discrepancy between the project timelines released by TransLink’s SLS project team before COVID-19 and the project timeline suggested now.
We cannot afford to wait 3 more years for Surrey-Langley SkyTrain. MEDIA RELEASE September 21, 2021・Surrey, BC #buildSLS update – TransLink has indicated that the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain will now open in 2028, instead of in 2025. We are exceptionally disappointed to hear today that our decade-long battle to get a Surrey-Langley SkyTrain built has been […]