Pattullo Bridge Rehabilitation Project

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Originally Posted by CanSpice

They've signed an MOU with TransLink and Surrey stating that the rebuilt Pattullo will be four lanes initially and if traffic levels dictate, it can be expanded easily to six lanes. There's nothing about "four lanes or nothing" in anything they've agreed to. Please do your homework.

And Cote's got a degree in urban studies, and his masters thesis was about transit-oriented developments, specifically studying the area around 22nd Street SkyTrain station. While bike lanes may factor into that, they would hardly be a focus of his studies. Please do your homework.

And he was elected because his chief competitor, Wayne Wright, was riding on his past successes (and they were many) without offering any sort of vision for the future of New Westminster. New West's major issue is traffic, and the people of New West are extremely hesitant to allow even more traffic through the city. That's why there's opposition to the Stormont Connector, and that's why there's opposition to the United Boulevard Extension. That opposition doesn't just come from city hall, it comes from the neighbourhoods that would have to deal with all the extra traffic that these large streets would bring into New West.

I find that any sort of "Urban Planning" degree from local Metro Vancouver Universities is pretty much a negative in my eyes. People like Jonathan are helping slowly strangle this region. The teachers operating in this region are clearly helping churn out some pretty shitty urban planners. People will look back decades from now and wonder how we let our region become so inefficient.