The BC Government’s Gateway Project was announced in 2004 with claims it would reduce congestion and enhance travel for people and goods around the lower mainland. It includes widening Highway 1 from the Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver to Langley, twinning the Port Mann Bridge, and building a four-lane truck highway called the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) around Burn’s Bog to allow a tripling of container truck traffic from Deltaport at Roberts Bank.

Since the introduction of the project, costs of gas and construction have increased so much the budget for the project is now completely inaccurate. As well, the BC government just introduced a carbon tax and committed to a Climate Action Plan calling for reducing the number of kilometres traveled in vehicles. Yet the government still plans to spend billions of dollars to promote vehicle traffic with the Gateway Project. Building freeways and bridges has proven to always attract more cars and with them more pollution and gridlock. Now, more than ever, the Gateway Project has become illogical, contradictory and economically unfeasible. read more >>