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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698
I don't have a problem with a replacement. The problem I have is adding six more lanes hard on the heels of five new lanes at Port Mann, all while avoiding any kind of commitment for transit expansion. Why if I were the suspicious type I'd almost think that everyone in the Provincial government is a car dealer or owns real estate south of the Fraser.
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Adding 6 more lanes just brings the highway to 21st century standards. I do believe 8 lanes is sufficient but 10 lanes would be future proof. We don't want to be revisiting realignment expansion 20 years from now as the region grows. It's going to grow and pressures cannot be reversed by throwing a few more buses on gridlocked roads. Obviously, transit is also important. If buses are not gridlocked on Hwy 99 proper once it is expanded, perhaps they will live up to the "rapid" classification in the BRT ethos. And we all know trucks can't take buses to move goods. Expansion is just enough reason to get goods flowing more efficiently in addition to people.
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