BC United pledges new Second Narrows Bridge, SkyTrain to North Shore

With less than 3 months to spell earlier B.C.’s provincial election, BC United unveiled different awesome run plank connected Thursday.

BC United Leader Kevin Falcon pledged his statement would make awesome infrastructure investments to reside congestion connected Metro Vancouver’s North Shore.

Front and centre successful nan scheme is simply a committedness to build a caller 10-lane Second Narrows bridge, featuring further conveyance and HOV lanes.

“We’ve had 125,000 much group who person moved into nan North Shore since that span was built,” Falcon said.

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“If we don’t commencement investing successful infrastructure, we will person group sitting successful parking tons for hours a time arsenic is often nan lawsuit today.”

Falcon besides promised to build a caller SkyTrain hold to link nan North Shore to nan remainder of Metro Vancouver’s accelerated transit network.

He is besides pledging “comprehensive” improvements to roadworthy and transit infrastructure to alleviate congestion.

The committedness came nan aforesaid time that TransLink warned of drastic cuts to nan region’s transit web if it cannot lick a $600-million spread successful yearly operating funding.