The B.C. government revealed Thursday the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain line will cost just under $6 billion, with a forecast service date of late 2029. In 2022, the cost was $4 billion.
WATCH: B.C. Transportation Minister Rob Fleming discusses what's behind the ballooning cost of the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain construction, and where the additional money to pay for the project will come from.News that the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain line on B.C.’s Lower Mainland will cost 50 per cent more and come online a year later than initially forecast is being met with frustration..
TransLink began planning for the project in 2018, but initial funding would have only covered one phase of the line to Fleetwood in Surrey. Surrey Board of Trade president and CEO Anita Huberman said she was not surprised to learn the project had been delayed yet again, nor that it would cost more. “I have grave concerns the cost will go up even further and be delayed longer while they’re mandating us to build significant amounts of density long before the SkyTrain arrives,” he said.L.A. woman sentenced to 12 years in Russian prison for $50 Ukraine donation
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