Former Langley township Mayor Rick Green supports the Progressive Sustainable Surrey’s call for reactivating the Interurban instead of LRT or Skytrain through Fraser Highway. “Large amount of clear cutting of the Green Timbers Urban Forest would be unavoidable,” says Green.
“Both the proposed LRT and Skytrain will be detrimental to the forest,” says Deanna Welters, Progressive Sustainable Surrey’s city council candidate, who is a director of Green Timbers Heritage Society. “The noise from both systems will be permanently disruptive to the biodiversity in the forest,” says Welters. Fleetwood BIA has just come against SkyTrain down Fraser Highway saying it would be a “noisy monstrosity” and is the wrong choice for the area’s businesses and residents.
“In the heat of an election campaign they are saying we are second-class-citizens having to accept Skytrain or LRT down Fraser Highway”, says Green. “Fraser Highway to Langley City (16.6Kms) to be an estimated cost just shy of $4,000,000,000 as compared to the $4,000 – $1,000,000,000 for use of the entire 99Km passenger corridor, protected by a previous Provincial Government for passenger service,” says Green.
“The state-of-the-art reactivation of the South of Fraser Community Passenger Rail using hydrogen powered trams would cost $1,200,000,000., as stated we have three engineering studies to support our position,” says Green. “Newton was created by the BC Electric Railway going through that community in 1910,” says Green.
“Planned as a community rail service south of the Fraser, the Interurban will from Scott Road station to, Kennedy Heights, Cedar Hills, Strawberry Hills, Newton, Panorama Ridge, Sullivan Heights, Clayton Heights, Cloverdale, Langley, Abbotsford and onward to Chilliwack at the fraction of the cost of the proposed LRT or Skytrain,” says Imtiaz Popat Progressive Sustainable Surrey Mayoral candidate.
Interurban for Fraser Valley will be hosting a town hall meeting with former Langley Township Mayor Rich Green on Sunday October 14th from 2 pm to 4 pm and Surrey Central Library. Room 401.