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Gateway Program’s blacktop politics pushed back in New Westminster
Until recently, the Gateway freeway megaproject looked unstoppable.
Work is continuing on the $3-billion Highway 1 widening, which
includes the replacement for the Port Mann Bridge, slated to be
Canada's widest bridge. Despite legal action by the Burns Bog
Conservation Society, logging for the $2-billion South Fraser
Perimeter Road freeway continues in Surrey and Delta.
But the Gateway Program has ground to a halt in New Westminster due
to citizen activism combined with the provincial budget squeeze. Two
interconnected parts of the Gateway project were planned for New West:
See full text, links and comments at
http://www.straight.com/article-374636/vancouver/eric-doherty-gateway-programs-blacktop-politics-pushed-back-new-westminster
Work is continuing on the $3-billion Highway 1 widening, which
includes the replacement for the Port Mann Bridge, slated to be
Canada's widest bridge. Despite legal action by the Burns Bog
Conservation Society, logging for the $2-billion South Fraser
Perimeter Road freeway continues in Surrey and Delta.
But the Gateway Program has ground to a halt in New Westminster due
to citizen activism combined with the provincial budget squeeze. Two
interconnected parts of the Gateway project were planned for New West:
See full text, links and comments at
http://www.straight.com/article-374636/vancouver/eric-doherty-gateway-programs-blacktop-politics-pushed-back-new-westminster
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