Feedback? When Has TransLink Ever Listened To Public Feedback?
Feedback?
This is TransLink’s spin doctor CEO Kevin Quinn’s attempt to pretend that TransLink listens to the public. A perfect word salad of drivel.
Ha! Ha!
Remember Kevin Quinn, you know the guy they were glad to see the back of in Baltimore …….
“you are about to get a new CEO of Translink in the person of Kevin Quinn. this is a good news/bad news situation. Good news is we are rid of him, bad news you are getting him. Mr Quinn may be the nicest yes man you will ever meet. he is very personable and friendly but have yet to actually see him in 6yrs have an opinion of his own. and if he has any use for light rail he has kept it well hidden. Hopefully you will have better luck than Baltimore, ridership is off (before pandemic) 2% year over year since he took over. good luck“
The Surrey Langley SkyTrain project is culmination of myopic planning; politcal corruption; and a complete squandering of the public’s money on a 16 km extension, using an obsolete proprietary light metro system and is unsalable elsewhere.
The cost of the original light rail project has risen from $1.6 billion to more than $6 billion light-metro project ($7 billion if one includes the OMC#5) for a route that according to TransLink, will carry fewer customers than the Broadway B-Line bus!
Oh, TransLink ignores the fact that proprietary light metro operates poorly, if at all in the snow and past Surrey, it snows a great deal more than in Western Metro Vancouver.
This extension’s cost is so bloated that it will be built as cheaply as possible and public inputs an entertaining side show, worthy of the great Barnum himself! What we see is classic”spin doctoring” to sell to a lazy, if not gullible media, on a slow news day.
No mention of a $2 billion funding shortfall either! One would think that was newsworthy.
Oh by the way, more bad news on costs are coming soon, when Mr. Trumps tariffs kick in and Canada retaliates.

Surrey-Langley SkyTrain project takes public feedback at open house
By Angela Bower
Posted December 1, 2024
The planners behind the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain (SLS) project held an open house Saturday to get public feedback on the design of the new $6 billion expansion.
Gilles Assier, the project’s executive project director, says the expansion is a noteworthy undertaking.
“This is a very important project,” he said. ” It’s the first expansion in the last 30 years south of the Fraser.”
The line will have eight stations spanning the distance between Surrey’s King George Station and Langley’s Willowbrook Mall, with stops in Guildford, Fleetwood, and Clayton Heights.
Each station will have its own look.



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“There was a desire to make each station slightly unique to reflect their neighbourhood,” Assier said.
The final stop will be at 203rd Street in Langley. The current travel time to this station via bus from King George Station in Surrey is just over 50 minutes. The new SkyTrain line is expected to cut travel time to just 22 minutes.
Heading into downtown Vancouver from Langley will take just over an hour.
CityNews spoke to some residents who are excited about having a new alternative to driving.
“If I want to hop on the SkyTrain down the road, I’ll be able to go downtown and not worry about traffic,” one attendee said. “That’s a plus.”
Others are excited about the economic growth encouraged by the new line.
“I think a lot of businesses will be opening because of the density and population,” another attendee said. “And those businesses need people to work.”
Assier agrees.
“We know the population is growing in the region,” he said. “We expect by 2050 to have up to 400,000 people living in Surrey and Langley,” he said.
But one attendee says the SkyTrain isn’t the ideal mode of rapid transit, claiming that light rail is easier to access while also noting the SkyTrain’s concrete pillars aren’t nice to look at.
“I don’t see it as a true friendly infrastructure; it’s not great for pedestrians,” the attendee said.
“It’s more of a car-friendly infrastructure versus LRT, which would be much better for our neighbourhood. I hope in the future, we see LRT because there is space for it on Fraser Highway.”
Residents who live near the new SLS line are encouraged to check the project’s website for any construction updates to avoid traffic disappointment.
“This is a very big project and we can expect a lot of congestion,” Assier said.
The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2029.