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Originally Posted by Repthe250
You’re forgetting Delta Port lies south of the Fraser. An extra lane doesn’t just help commuters. It also moves goods. If we want to grow our exports and economy, the current tunnel isn’t gonna cut it.
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The current tunnel moves around 85,000 vehicles a day, but only 10% are trucks. The vast majority of the containers moving through Deltaport travel by rail, but there are on average around 550 container trucks using the tunnel in each direction associated with the port. Most containers that are moved from the port by road stay south of the Fraser, and don't use the tunnel.
Even with the doubling of the container facility at Deltaport, which is now not expected to be operational before the mid 2030s at the earliest, only around 1,000 port trucks a day are expected to cross the Fraser in the new tunnel. On the busiest days that could be more, because port traffic isn't completely even through the year, but it's expected to generate less than 2,000 truck movements each way in the busiest 24 hour period.
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