Mayor's Council Advocating For LRT (To Detriment of South Fraser)

The Mayor's Council continues to push Light-Rail Transit as their vision of Rapid Transit on the South Side of the Fraser River, regardless of the findings of the Surrey Rapid-Transit Study. As well they have flouted the impartiality of the plebiscite by continuing to push forward on Rapid Transit as their sole solution to Surrey's transportation problems despite evidence to the contrary.

Their singleminded promotion of LRT on their web-site.



We find it reprehensible that the Mayor's Council is pushing forward a non-impartial vote by tying LRT to the Yes side of the Transit plebiscite when the ballots state clearly that no one form of transit solution should be considered for South Fraser. However the clique of Mayors have determined that an inferior mode of "rapid"-transit should be implemented for South of Fraser despite forecasted and proven problems in both Calgary and in Portland, OR.

 Surrey City Hall is also campaigning hard for LRT on a sign-board just west of the Surrey Sport & Leisure on Fraser Highway.


The Yes side has become so desperate that it is resorting to highly expensive full-page ads on behalf of the Mayor's Council to push the LRT agenda as seen here in the advertisement in the March 5, 2015 Surrey Now. On top of that it persists in continuing to push the false impression that LRT will be able to outrun the same traffic that it purports to share the road with and also matching Skytrain times while the Skytrain runs at over 80km/hr on a dedicated track.


Mayor's Council Ad in Surrey Now, March 5, 2015

This defeats the "fairness and impartiality" of the Transit Plebiscite and should be overturned.

This comes even as the Mayor's Council ignores what citizens south of the Fraser River want in terms of their transit requirements. 54% of respondents to a poll in the VanCity Buzz wanted Skytrain over LRT for rapid transit south of the Fraser. Only 27% of respondents voted for LRT. So evidently the Mayor's Council, even seeing the majority of the proponents for Skytrain have opted to think that their populace is too stupid to warrant even considering their viewpoint.