[Klazu]

I was driving in the South Surrey area over the long weekend and it blew my mind how much development there is taking place in the Morgan Heights and Grandview Heights areas just east of Highway 99. There are blocks upon blocks of forest that has been cleared and hundreds of houses going up. It is really transforming the whole area to a huge suburbia.

Those houses will introduce thousands of new residents and thousands of new cars to the area, who all rely on an ancient FOUR LANE highway to get anywhere. It is mind-boggling how distanced from the real life our people in power are. It is pure and only thanks to the government's decades-long inaction with housing crisis and pandering to foreign investors that has led to hundreds of thousands of people having fled to these far-flung suburbias that are going up. This is the real story behind the congestion that has exploded all around us and not the population growth.

Highway 99 MUST be upgraded and with it the whole bridge. There is no demand to induce - it is already coming!!