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LETTER: 91原创/Surrey shortchanged on transit for Vancouver

Funding to get SkyTrain to 91原创 City could come from not undergrounding Vancouver鈥檚 extension.
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Dear Editor,

Remember how unfair the tolls were on the Alex Fraser and Golden Ears bridges?

91原创 and Surrey residents are now faced with similar inequity in the construction of a SkyTrain extension which, with available funding of $1.9B, will be constructed from King George Station to Fleetwood. Once that extension is completed, it will be 20 years before a further extension to 91原创 City is constructed.

For an additional $1B, the SkyTrain extension would terminate at 91原创 City rather than Fleetwood. Where would the extra $1B come from? The logical source is the money set aside for undergrounding the Broadway Skytrain extension.

The rest of us should not have to pay for the luxury of Vancouver having an underground system while the rest of the region goes without or puts up with a less aesthetically pleasing above-ground system. If Vancouver wants to tuck SkyTrain underground, Vancouver should pay for it. I鈥檝e become weary of 91原创 and Surrey residents being treated like second-class citizens.

We spoke out and had the bridge tolls removed after the last provincial election. Let鈥檚 once again show that 91原创 and Surrey deserve to be treated with respect.

Allan Woodbury, 91原创



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