George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project

Project Update

Corporation of Delta Council January 9, 2017 Existing Challenges

• Collisions • Impacts on: • Congestion • People • Unreliability • Goods • Seismic vulnerability • Jobs • Tunnel dimensions • Tourism sub-standard • Transit users • No capacity for cycling or walking Traffic Analysis: Northbound Traffic3

ORIGIN DESTINATION Burnaby/ 40% 1%

Richmond

59% North Tilbury Delta/Surrey 8% 19% George Massey Tunnel

U.S. Border/ Ladner White Rock/ 17% South Surrey Deltaport 35% 2% Tsawwassen 19% 4 What Happens at the ?

• Morning queues will continue as today; traffic patterns may change somewhat but no significant change in total traffic • 60% of tunnel users end their trip in Richmond • Efficiency of Oak Street Bridge will continue to be governed by traffic lights at 70th Avenue in Vancouver • Rush-hour traffic volumes on the Oak Street Bridge have been constant/declining since in effect Traffic Analysis: Southbound Traffic

ORIGIN DESTINATION Vancouver Burnaby/ 34% New Westminster 1%

Richmond

65% North Tilbury Delta/Surrey 7% 21% George Massey Tunnel

U.S. Border/ White Rock/ South Surrey Deltaport Ladner/ 36% Tsawwassen 2% 34%

8 Options Analysis | Phase 2 Consultation

ALIGNMENT EFFECTS AGRICULTURAL PARKLAND RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL MARINE 9 Stakeholder Engagement

• Public Information Office • Storefront venue with models, display boards and info • 5200 visitors since 2014 • 2600 email update subscribers • Stakeholder meetings and presentations • City of Richmond (115 meetings) • Corporation of Delta (111 meetings) • Metro Vancouver (41 meetings) • Other stakeholders (450+ meetings) 10 Project Overview

Bridgeport Road to Highway 91

• Construct new 3.3 km bridge (8 lanes plus 2 transit/HOV lanes)

• 24 km highway improvements • 50 lane-km new dedicated Cost: transit/HOV lanes • $3.5 billion • Replace three interchanges • Funded through user and five overpasses tolls • Bike and pedestrian pathways Procurement: • Allow for future rapid transit • 30-year public private partnership • Decommission Tunnel 11 Transit

• 50 km of new dedicated transit lanes • Highway 99 is already a major transit route • Transit stops integrated with the Steveston Highway and Highway 17A • One bus through the interchanges tunnel every 3-4 minutes • Dedicated transit ramp from Highway 99 to Bridgeport Road • More than 10,000 transit riders daily • Safe and reliable transit access to through the tunnel Canada Line at Bridgeport Station • Highest transit use of • Allowance for future rapid transit on any road the new bridge crossing 12 Bridge 13 Bridge

• 3.3km long • Built to last 125-years • 40,000 trucks of concrete • 658m clear span over • Design for the Fraser River maintenance and • 50,000t of rebar operations • 205m high towers • 30,000t of steel • Snow and ice • 66km of pile length • 2-way navigation management channel with 57m • 185,000t of asphalt clearance • 300,000t of gravel 14 Why Five Lanes in Each Direction?

Benefits: 1 Dedicated transit/HOV lanes • Improved merging safety 3 Regular traffic lanes (same as today in rush hour) • Reduced weaving 1 Lane for slow, merging traffic • Reduced congestion/increased reliability

• Improved emergency response access

Four lanes in each direction would result in congestion on opening day 15 Navigation | River Depth Effects 16 Highway 17A 17 Environmental Assessment

• Application for EA Certificate 2016 • Currently in up to 180-day review period • 60-day Public Comment period • Open Houses, online and written comments • Technical Working Group • EAO recommendation to Minister early 2017 18 Agricultural Land and Use

• Net benefits to farming: • Improvements to drainage and ditch water quality • Topsoil salvage program • No net loss of ALR land • Movement of large farm equipment over new bridge • Improved service and safety for farm vehicles crossing Highway 99 • Improved access to markets • Improved safety for farm equipment mobility • No long-term effects to salt wedge/irrigation systems 19 Agricultural Use | Delta 20 Tunnel Decommissioning 21 Tunnel Decommissioning

Immersed tube tunnel construction in the Netherlands 22 Environmental Enhancements 23 South Approach - Green Slough 24 Schedule

Communication & Engagement

Planning Environmental Assessment

Consultation Procurement Design, Construction, Tunnel Decommissioning

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