SFPR a must-have
Letter writer John Carson has a great letter in Wednesday's Surrey Leader regarding the need for the South Fraser Perimeter Road:Have you ever tried to get from South Delta to Highway 1? You make the statement as if the perimeter road ends at the Port Mann Bridge. Its intention is to have the Perimeter Road interconnect with Highway 1 at 176th Street or Port Kells, not at the Port Mann Bridge. It’s meant to help movement of traffic south of the Fraser River. The main intent is to move freight between Highway 1 and Delta Port quicker.
One perimeter road reduces stress on three bridges and all the traffic coming from Stewardson Way onward to Highway 1. Take truck traffic off three bridges and there is a lot more room for commuters.
If you were allowed to sit in your lunch room for four hours of the day and be paid for it, your boss could not afford to either keep you or his or her business. Then why do commercial drivers (freight, trades, couriers) have to sit in constant congestion and consume 50 per cent of their time in traffic?
These transportation initiatives are all inter-connected. It would be poor planning to do one without the others. We need the SFPR, the NFPR, the Port Mann, HOV and extra lanes on Highway 1, the Evergreen Line, the Canada Line, more buses, rail south of the Fraser, bike lanes, all of it. There are too many different types of users--all of whom are being poorly served--to not do as much as possible. This is not either-or; it's all.
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The SFPR will bring the congestion from 160th at Hwy 1 down to the already overburdened Pattulo, Alex Fraser, and the George Massey crossings. There are no plans to improve these crossings in the next 40 years! Then there is the projected 63% increase in truck traffic from DeltaPort which will cripple these crossings. And I have gone from south Delta to highway one, its called the #10 hwy. The Expansion of Hwy #10 would make the Cheapest, straightest, most direct route for traffic to Hwy one, Hwy 15 south, the Port Mann and the new Golden Ears Bridge.
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