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Oil transport: Kinder Morgan aims to avoid homes
Pipeline to take all-new route from Surrey to Burnaby
NEW PATTULLO BRIDGE CROSSINGS PROPOSED
by Jeff Nagel KINDER MORGAN Canada plans to
stake out an almost all-new corridor for its second oil pipeline from Port Kells in Surrey to Burnaby to avoid digging through private property in densely populated neighGreg Toth bourhoods. Greg Toth, senior project director of the Trans Mountain pipeline twinning, said following the existing right-of-way – as the company intends on most of the rest of the route through the Fraser Valley and the Interior – would be too disrup-
“We’re trying to align the pipeline in those preexisting corridors.”
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The six new Pattullo Bridge replacement options all come with tolls.
New crossing could offer a more direct Surrey-Coquitlam link by Jeff Nagel A NEW SURREY-COQUITLAM bridge bypass-
ing New Westminster is one of six recommended options TransLink has unveiled to replace the aging Pattullo Bridge that could profoundly change traffic patterns. They were released Monday as part of a new round of public consultation this month. And no matter which option is chosen, TransLink’s review of them suggests the replacement span will be tolled. “Costs of $1 billion would be recoverable through user fees,” the report says, while adding a crossing costing more than that would need senior government contribu-
tions as well. The most unusual option studied was a possible new four-lane Tree Island crossing well downstream of the Queensborough Bridge. It would have offered a more direct Delta-Burnaby connection that would have taken traffic from the Alex Fraser Bridge in a near straight line over the Fraser’s north arm, instead of splitting either left to Richmond or right to Queensborough. But TransLink’s screening review found it wouldn’t serve the existing Surrey-New Westminster traffic and Burnaby and Richmond fear more agricultural and industrial land would be lost. It would act more as an alternative to the
Queensborough Bridge than the Pattullo, the review said, but most motorists won’t pay the tolls to cover the $825-million cost of a bridge there if the Queensborough is free. Two of them don’t call for a new bridge at all, but rehabilitating the existing Pattullo for safer three- or four-lane use at a cost of $330 to $400 million, still funded by tolls. Both would improve seismic and structural safety but risks of head-on crashes would continue as there’d be no median barrier either in the three-lane counterflow or four-lane configuration. An all-new bridge near the existing one – either four, five or six lanes – would betSee PATTULLO / Page 5
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