British Columbia’s transportation minister says the business plan and financing for the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain project has been officially approved.
Rob Fleming says the project is expected to be completed by 2028, two years earlier than originally planned, and will cost $500 million less than expected by building the line to Langley “in one go”.
He says the capital cost of the link is $3.94 billion, which includes $2.4 billion from the province, $1.3 billion from the federal government and the balance coming from local government.
Once completed, Fleming says it will take just 22 minutes to get from Langley to King George Station in Surrey and just over an hour to get from Langley to downtown Vancouver.
The province said in a statement that work on the project, including relocating utilities and widening the road, is already underway and main construction is expected to begin in 2024.
Fleming says the province will provide another $60 million for cycling and walking active transport routes along the Fraser Highway to complement the SkyTrain line.
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