Posted May 27, 2020, 9:38 PM
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Maybe, maybe not.
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Surrey Langley SkyTrain project stalls due to COVID-19 pandemic
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Just like almost everything, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected planning for Surrey Langley SkyTrain project.
A report to the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation notes that there are “several outstanding issues that must be addressed for the SLS project to advance”.
The report was prepared by Geoff Cross, vice president TransLink for transportation planning and policy, and is included in the council’s agenda Thursday (May 28).
In his report, Cross noted that before the pandemic, the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain project was the “primary impetus” for an update to the regional transporation’s investment plan.
The updated plan was “targeted for approval in July 2020”.
“However, following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 it was decided that delivering a Phase Two Investment Plan update in July was no longer feasible due to uncertainties in projecting future revenues,” according to Cross.
Cross noted that the business case for the project is already with senior levels of government, and “scope could readily scale with additional funding”.
“However, it is fiscally prudent to wait until the nature and magnitude of emergency relief and stimulus programs is more certain,” Cross wrote.
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Just this one time, the NDP might want to reconsider its recovery policy.
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