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Township councillors have complained that the public transit needs of Langley and other communities south of the Fraser River boundary are being overlooked in the rush to develop a new regional transit plan for the Lower Mainland.
Numerous complaints were received recently after Councillor Charlie Fox predicted that the current planning process will give too much attention to the Vancouver campaign for another underground rapid transit line. In his report, Fox anticipated that the “South of the Fraser is going to lose out to a subway on Broadway.” The issue did not only prompt a complaint by Fox but also received equally unhappy follow-up remarks from other council members after the presentation of a report on regional transit needs at the Monday, May 12 meeting. According to the report generated by the city of Surrey for a TransLink’s mayors’ council, it is trying to develop a transit funding proposal by a June 30 deadline set by the provincial government.
The report points out that there is an extraordinarily large transit gap between the north and south, since the north has 56 per cent of the population and receives 68 per cent of the bus funding, whereas the south has 31 per cent of the population and gets only 19 per cent of the bus money. In addition to that that, it was also highlighted that the north has 68 kilometres of rapid transit tracks, while the south has just six kilometres.
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