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Bridge tolls kick in Dec. 8 New bridge, eight lanes through Surrey officially open Dec. 1
By Jeff Nagel Commuters will soon find out if the new Port Mann Bridge ends their gridlock gripes or simply moves Metro Vancouver’s biggest traffic bottleneck further down the highway and onto untolled crossings. The new bridge officially opens with eight lanes on Saturday Dec. 1 and half-price tolls of $1.50 for regular cars will kick in a week later on Dec. 8. The transportation ministry estimates the new bridge will cut commute times 50 per cent and save some drivers an hour a day. But the full 10 lanes on the bridge and on the widened Highway 1 through Vancouver and Burnaby won’t be open until late in 2013 because construction is continuing on much of the corridor. And some critics say even when the full project is complete, traffic heading to those cities will hit heavy volume at the off-ramps, backing traffic up onto the freeway. “My prediction is congestion,” said Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan. “The pinch point will just be moved.” He said Burnaby, New Westminster and Vancouver are all refusing to free up more road capacity in response – by eliminating parking lanes, for example. “The highway is the access point and if that’s where people end up having to sit, that’s where
they have to sit.” But Port Mann/Highway 1 project spokesman Max Logan said much of the westbound traffic using the bridge exits at Cape Horn or Brunette Avenue. “We’re not expecting anything significant in terms of a pinch point or traffic bottleneck,” he said, adding drivers should see similar conditions they now see west of Brunette, until the entire $3.3-billion project is finished in late 2013. It’s a different story east of the bridge. By Dec. 1, there will be four lanes open in each direction running from Brunette over the bridge as far east as 200 Street in Langley, he said, a doubling of highway capacity through Surrey. One of the four lanes each way will be for HOV users, adding 20 kilometres where car pools and other vehicles with at least two occupants can bypass congestion. Registered HOV lane users also get a 25 per cent discount. Drivers who don’t want to pay a toll will be directed over the Pattullo Bridge, via the South Fraser Perimeter Road, which partly opens Dec. 1. NDP transportation critic Harry Bains predicts heavy congestion at that crossing and in feeder routes in Surrey and New Westminster as a result. Logan said he expects some drivers will shift to See FIRST BIG TEST / Page 2
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By Jennifer Lang The enduring tradition of basket weaving and exchange on the lower Fraser River is the focus of a revealing new exhibit at the Surrey Museum this fall. Baskets for Barter features woven cedar baskets from the Surrey Museum’s own collection, along with historic and contemporary Coast Salish baskets from the Musqueam Indian Band, the Museum of Anthropology, the Royal B.C. Museum, New Westminster Museum and
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Archives and from private collections across the Lower Mainland, making it one of the most diverse exhibits of its type assembled. The exhibit spans the centuries. There’s a 3,500-year-old basket fragment from on display (on loan from UBC’s department of archeology) – a marvel, considering how long these organic weaving remains have survived. There are modern wonders, too, such as a colourful cellphone case made from woven cedar (pictured at left) adorning a figure draped in a
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dress and hat made from cedar, testament to the material’s versatility. “The tradition is still alive and well within the community,” says Surrey Museum manager Rob McCullough, who points out that 10,000 years of knowledge, skill, tradition and culture has been passed down to the present. The exhibit started out as an attempt to showcase the museum’s own collection of First Na-
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