Surrey, BC proposed light rail line
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 08:12 AM
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Posted 13 April 2011 - 12:15 PM
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that an elevated electric rail line (an extension of SkyTrain) would be less disruptive to a community than grade level light rail."I don't want to have SkyTrain cutting our communities in half -that is going to destroy our city," Watts told nearly 500 people at her state of the city speech at the Sheraton Guildford Hotel.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 14 March 2012 - 12:21 PM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 08 May 2013 - 09:47 AM
When it comes to transportation candidates agree a light rail project is needed, but disagree on how to fund it.
http://www.news1130....ht-rail-system/
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Posted 08 May 2013 - 06:00 PM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 18 November 2014 - 06:11 AM
Railway Age
Mayor-elect Linda Hepner, formerly Surrey's economic development officer, was elected by a majority of voters despite a three-way contest on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. Addressing local media upon her victory, she declared, "You're going to see that light rail on the ground by 2018. I am incredibly confident." She added, "I am building that light rail. We have got to connect this city."
LRT also is supported by outgoing Surrey Mayor Diane Watts, and was included last June in the Metro Vancouver Transport Plan, which received input from numerous mayors and municipalities. A citizens' group, The Better Surrey Rapid Transit, has its own report instead calling for an extension of the SkyTrain Expo Line.
Mayor-elect Hepner has objected to Surrey paying C$144 million (US$127 million) to regional transportation authority TransLink without seeing requisite benefits, such as the Skytrain extension to Surrey itself, which remains a distant prospect.
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Posted 18 November 2014 - 11:32 AM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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Posted 19 November 2014 - 05:44 AM
City of Surrey light rail site
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Posted 31 July 2017 - 10:59 AM
Surrey, BC Now-Leader, 7/27/17:
Delta’s mayor fights for light rail out to Chilliwack
Lower Mainland residents might one day be able hop on a train in Richmond and hop off in Chilliwack – or at least that’s Delta Mayor Lois Jackson’s hope.
Story is here. As long as the population warrants it, I would of course be in favor of continuing the Sky Train technology onward from its current endpoints, whether Richmond or Surrey. The item seems to point to the need for rapid transit all the way down to White Rock, which is just north of the Canada/US border.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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