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Environmental Assessment Office Page 1 of 211 Environmental Assessment Office Collected Public Comments for George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project January 15, 2016 through February 16, 2016 Comments will be available on this page until March 15, 2016 and after this date all posted comments will be available through the EAO electronic Project Information Centre (ePIC) application. February 16, 2016 Alexander Cameron - Richmond, British Columbia This bridge seems like a unnecessarily expensive replacement that will keeps more cars on the road and encourage traffic build up over the next few years, negating it's improvement, when our transit system would benefit from this money so much more and the economic impact for the region would be hugely beneficial for years to come. More so than improving the import ability of the Fraser river. I believe retrofitting the bridge would be more than enough to keep it in shape and leave our public infrastructure funding to go towards more impactful in terms of not only the environment but economy and quality of life too. February 15, 2016 Boundary Bay Conservation Committee - Delta, British Columbia http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/comments/George_Massey_comments.html 2016-02-19 Page 2 of 211 http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/comments/George_Massey_comments.html 2016-02-19 Page 3 of 211 http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/comments/George_Massey_comments.html 2016-02-19 Page 4 of 211 Councillor Harold Steves - Richmond, British Columbia FROM: Councillor Harold Steves, City of Rickmond http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/comments/George_Massey_comments.html 2016-02-19 Page 5 of 211 RE: George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project The scope of the environmental review is too narrow. Any environmental assessment of the George Massey Tunnel replacement bridge must consider the intended consequences of constructing the bridge. The bridge will have a dramatic impact in permitting the industrialization of the Fraser River. Deep dredging to 15.5 metres, up to 18 metres will cause major habitat loss and have a major effect the fishery. The loss of 3,000 acres of farmland the Port will use as backup lands is irreplaceable and will have a major effect on food prices and food security for metro Vancouver residents. An environmental assessment is entirely inadequate if it is primarily confined to the transit corridor Richmond Council is concerned about the abrupt change in direction from upgrading the George Massey Tunnel to building a bridge. Richmond Council was fully consulted on the publicly announced plan to twin the tunnel in 2006. Richmond Council was not consulted on the decision to change the plan to building a bridge. The following documents show how the project changed abruptly from a tunnel to a bridge: 1. July 15, 2004 "Massey Tunnel seismic upgrade review". "Kenaidan Contracting has been awarded the 22.2 million contract Province to spend $22.2 million on seismic upgrade for the Massey Tunnel." "These improvements are designed to make the tunnel safer in the event of a major earthquake", Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon said. 2. Feb. 16, 2006 "Twinned tunnel part of Victoria's long term plan" "expandingHighway 99 on both sides of the tunnel from four lanes to six." "The project is on the back burner in part because it would put pressure on traffic bottlenecks to the north requiring expansion of the Oak Street and Knight Street bridges into Vancouver or a new bridge into Burnaby." 3. Feb. 18, 2006 "Tunnel will be twinned" and "widened from four lanes to six once the provinces more pressing transportation projects are complete." "Twinning the tunnel would also require improvements to other crossings over the North Arm of the Fraser, such as Oak Street and Knight Street bridges, or a new crossing to connect with growing central Burnaby." 4. Dec 11, 2008 "Bus lane will speed transit commute along Highway 99" with "high quality, point to point service ... between White Rock and Richmond. "Jacob Bros. Construction Ltd. of Surrey was awarded the $4.7 million contract to build the four metre wide shoulder bus lane. 5. Feb. 2, 2012 "BC Government meets with Port Metro Vancouver, Surrey Fraser Docks and Engineers to plan George Massey Tunnel Replacement Bridge" The meeting was composed of two representatives of Port Metro Vancouver, two from Fraser Surrey Docks, a bridge engineer and the Assistant Deputy Minister of Transportation and the Regional Manager Engineering for the Ministry of Transportation 6. Nov. 19, 2012 "Clearances for potential new river crossing" "We should consider future terminals. For example liquid bulk tankers, with large air draft requirements (e.g. LNG) should be considered", Jennifer Natland "We need to consider future terminals such as VAFFC, Lehigh, and possible terminal at our Richmond properties." Dave Hart, Port Metro Vancouver 7. Dec. 4, 2012 "Tunnel: Depth required is 15.5 metres below geodetic datum for 50 year life expectancy and 18.5 metres below for 100 year life expectancy." Dave Hart, Port Metro Vancouver 8. March 19, 2015 The 14 billion transit plan the BC Liberals conveniently forgot. 9. Nov. 5, 2015 Stone insists Massey bridge process is proper. The Province spent $22.2 million on a seismic upgrade on the Massey Tunnel in 2004, announced the tunnel would be twinned in 2006, and announced rapid bus in 2008. Studies were done that justified twinning the tunnel and improving public transit. It was noted that the carrying capacity http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/comments/George_Massey_comments.html 2016-02-19 Page 6 of 211 of the Oak Street Bridge and other bridges was limited and therefore the tunnel should only be six lanes. Rapid Bus would reduce traffic and reduce GHG's. Richmond Council was opposed to both a No. 8 Road Bridge to Delta and a bridge to Boundary Road in Burnaby because it would do irreparable damage to Richmond East farmland. The Rapid Bus system resolved that problem. What caused the province to suddenly change from a tunnel with public transit to a bridge without it? FOI information shows a concerted effort was made in 2012 by Fraser Surrey Docks and Port Metro Vancouver and others to have the tunnel removed to accommodate deep draft Panamex supertankers. The BC Government met with them to discuss tunnel removal on Feb 2, 2012, future terminals at VAFFC, Lehigh and a new one in Richmond, including liquid bulk tankers (e.g. LNG); and the need to dredge the river to 15.5 metres on Dec. 4, 2012. On Nov 5, 2015 Todd Stone admitted that they did not yet have a business case for a bridge, Now the reason is clear. It appears that the province changed their plans to permit the industrialization of the Fraser River by Port Metro Vancouver. They did not have a business plan for a bridge because the business case was for twinning the tunnel and providing Rapid Bus. CONCLUSION: The Massey Bridge will result in industrialization of the Fraser River and urban sprawl. You can't build yourself out of congestion. Soon you are back where you started from. From the original announcement that two lanes would be added to the tunnel until a new bridge was announced instead, the only input has been from proponents of industrial expansion of the Fraser River. Their intent to dredge the river to 15.5 metres or even 18 metres when the tunnel is removed is very clear. Denials by the Ministry of Transportation that the Province does not intend to dredge the river deeper are meaningless. The Province of BC does not even do river dredging. Port Metro Vancouver does the river dredging and they have specifically requested removal of the tunnel or a replacement tunnel at either 15.5 or 18 metres. Statements by the province indicating that it would harm the environment if a new tunnel is built at 15.5 metres depth is a clear indication that the Ministry of Transportation expects that the river will be dredged and opened up to deep sea shipping and Panamex supertankers. It follows that a bridge or a 15.5 metre tunnel will result in dredging the entire river to 15.5 metres from Sandheads to Fraser Surrey Docks and do unbelievable harm to habitat and fishery. Approving the bridge is opening the back door to incremental destruction of habitat, fishery and farmland while adding to the inevitable urban sprawl in the region. The EAO should reject this plan forthwith.. Harold Steves, City Councillor, Richmond Kimi Hendess - Richmond, British Columbia Valued Components of Proposed Massey Bridge project for Environmental Assessment Pre-Scoping stage 1. Insufficient information provided to the public - The Project Description and Key Areas of Study document does not contain enough information to comment properly on the project or scope and valued components. The information in the document is extremely poor quality - often simply repeating the "need" for a solution of some sort to the "problem" of traffic http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/comments/George_Massey_comments.html 2016-02-19 Page 7 of 211 congestion and projected growth, but questionable and insufficient data is given to back the needs assessment or the chosen option. Project Staff at the Open Houses kept saying "it's all on the website" but despite the volume of information on the website, none of it addresses rationale of the project, business case for the chosen bridge option, assessment of alternative options (allowing a cost-benefit comparative analysis) nor detail about any of the impacts or studies which we are told are underway but about which we have zero information. Photos available at the Open Houses (and on the website) only depicted a plan view of the highway - none show elevation views, which would give a sense of the scale of the bridge - a 3 level interchange at Steveston Highway and a massive "vertical footprint" that would change the landscape dramatically.
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