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Port Mann/Highway 1 Improvements McGill St. Hastings St. First Ave. Port Coquitlam Boundary Rd. Willingdon Ave. Grandview Hwy. Sprott St. Kensington Ave. Brunette Ave. Cape Horn Gaglardi Way Port Mann Bridge 152nd St. 160th St. 176th St. 192nd St. 200th St. Consultation on Access and Interchange Improvements 216th St. Pre-design Community Consultation Phase 2 200 St Discussion Guide on Access and Interchange Improvements www.gatewayprogram.bc.ca September – November 2006 CONSULTATION ON ACCESS AND INTERCHANGE IMPROVEMENTS: PRE-DESIGN COMMUNITY CONSULTATION PHASE 2 The Ministry of Transportation conducts community consultations at three design stages, including: Pre-design Consultation: Phase 1 Pre-design Consultation: Phase 2 Preliminary Design Consultation Detailed Design Consultation February – April 2006 September – November 2006 2008 2009 Pre-design consultation discussion topics This phase of consultation focuses on With basic pre-design components Detailed design consultation generally focuses included goals for interchange upgrades, proposed conceptual improvements determined, consultation on preliminary on fewer but more specifi c treatments, such congestion reduction measures such as high to existing and new interchanges and design discusses refi nements to interchanges as detailed interchange and access features, occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV) and transit overpasses. These proposed modifi cations and accesses, lane use, specifi cs of congestion lighting and landscaping. This phase also priority on-ramps, commercial vehicle priority and upgrades would improve safety, access reduction measures and other key features. involves more fi nancial and technical analysis access to on-ramps, potential tolling, and and connections across the highway, support to confi rm that designs are fi nancially and improvements to the cycling network. transit, help reduce congestion and improve technically feasible. A Consultation Summary Report is posted facilities for cyclists and pedestrians. on www.gatewayprogram.bc.ca. Pre-Design Consultation: Phase 2 includes: • 22 Meetings • 9 Open Houses How Pre-design Consultation Input Is Used: The input from Pre-design Consultation on Access • On-line feedback form and Interchange Improvements will be considered along with technical and fi nancial inputs to • Consultation Summary Report determine which options to further refi ne for environmental review and as preliminary designs. The deadline for consultation feedback is November 8, 2006. Open House Schedule Vancouver: Wednesday, October 11 Italian Cultural Centre, Lobby Surrey: Tuesday, October 24 Pacifi c Academy, Theatre Lobby 6:00pm – 9:00pm 3075 Slocan Street, Vancouver 6:00pm – 9:00pm 10238 – 168th Street, Surrey Langley: Saturday, October 14 West Langley Hall Surrey: Thursday, October 26 Guildford Recreation Centre, Lower Lobby 10:00am – 1:00pm 9400 - 208th Street, Langley 6:00pm – 9:00pm 15105 – 105th Avenue, Surrey Burnaby: Tuesday, October 17 Bill Copeland Sports Centre, Lobby Coquitlam: Saturday, October 28 Executive Plaza Hotel and Conference Centre, 6:00pm – 9:00pm 3676 Kensington Avenue, Burnaby 10:00am – 1:00pm Aspen Room Burnaby: Wednesday, October 18 Shadbolt Centre for the Arts 405 North Road, Coquitlam 6:00pm – 9:00pm 6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby Maple Ridge: Monday, October 30 The ACT Arts Centre and Theatre, Main Lobby New Westminster: Thursday, October 19 Justice Institute of British Columbia, Lobby 6:00pm – 9:00pm 11944 Haney Place, Maple Ridge 6:00pm – 9:00pm 715 McBride Boulevard, New Westminster PORT MANN/HIGHWAY 1 PROJECT GOALS WHAT IS THE GATEWAY PROGRAM? BUILDING LOCAL AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS IN A GROWING REGION TABLE OF CONTENTS In 2003, the provincial government established the Gateway Program to Changing Regional Travel Patterns complement other regional road and transit improvements planned or The Ministry of Transportation and the Greater Vancouver Introduction/ The Gateway Program .................................1 underway. The existing Highway 1 corridor from Vancouver to Langley Transportation Authority (TransLink) completed a travel survey of is one of three priority corridors identifi ed for consideration. The Greater Vancouver residents in 2004. One of the key trends from this Consultation Topics by Highway Segment other two are the North Fraser Perimeter Road and the South Fraser survey shows increased job growth outside the downtown Vancouver MCGill Street to Grandview Highway (Vancouver) .... 4 Perimeter Road. area. For example, in the past decade, growth in the number of Boundary Road to Wayburne Drive (Burnaby) ............. 7 Vancouver residents working in other municipalities exceeded the GATEWAY PROGRAM BENEFITS growth in the number of other municipal residents working in Douglas Road to Gaglardi Way (Burnaby) .................. 11 Vancouver by a factor of 9 to 1. This type of job growth creates a Improving roads and bridges for people, goods and transit, North Road to Cape Horn (Coquitlam) ....................... 16 greater need for travel from Vancouver to other municipalities, Gateway Program benefi ts include: and for inter-municipal travel, which is not easily served by transit. East End of Port Mann Bridge .................................... 21 • Addressing congestion The consequences of not making the necessary road and bridge to 160th Street (Surrey) improvements include increasing congestion, longer “rush hours”, • Improving the movement of people and goods in and East of 160th Street to 216th Street ...........................24 increased costs to the economy, delayed goods movement and through the region (Surrey/Langley) unreliable transit connections throughout the region. Overall, the Park-and-Ride and Park-and-Pool Locations ................ 28 • Improving access to key economic gateways cost of living and quality of life will suffer without comprehensive • Improving the regional road network improvements to the transportation and transit network. Strengthening a Strategic Link for Transportation and Trade • Improving quality of life How to use this Discussion Guide In addition to serving as the principal regional and inter-regional • Reducing vehicle emissions highway in the Lower Mainland, and as the main east-west commuter Please review the material for each highway segment. Each segment includes a detachable feedback form. • Facilitating better connections route, Highway 1 (along with Highway 15) serves as the principal truck route from Greater Vancouver to the rest of Canada and the United • Reducing travel times States. Trade through Greater Vancouver is now expanding faster than • Improving safety and reliability at any other time in BC’s history. A signifi cant portion of it is due in part to the success of a BC Ports Strategy that is taking advantage of BC’s This icon shows Highway 1 from McGill Street to The Port Mann/Highway 1 Project includes widening the highway, location as a gateway between Canada and Asia, as well as between 216th Street. A white circle moves along the map twinning the Port Mann Bridge, upgrading interchanges and improving North America and Asia. The strategy seeks to expand BC’s share of to orient you to the segment under discussion. access and safety on Highway 1 from the McGill Street interchange container traffi c from the current 9% to 17% by 2020. About 15% of in Vancouver to 216th Street in Langley, a distance of approximately this expansion is expected to occur at the Port of Vancouver Burrard After reviewing the material, complete the feedback 37 kilometres. This project will be completed by 2013. Inlet facilities, with about 60% at Deltaport and the Fraser Surrey Docks form and return it to the Gateway Program: This project’s proposed improvements also include: – two key gateway facilities that will connect to Highway 1 through On-line Feedback form: www.gatewayprogram.bc.ca the proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road. The growth in associated Congestion-reduction measures such as HOV lanes, transit and Mailing Address: Gateway Program Project Offi ce transportation industries is projected to produce some 35,000 new jobs commercial vehicle priority access to highway on-ramps, improvements 2400 – 4710 Kingsway Street and increase Canada’s GDP by $2.4 billion per year (in 2004 dollars). to the cycling network and a proposed toll on the Port Mann Bridge. Burnaby, BC V5H 4M2 As well, the new Port Mann Bridge will be built to accommodate future E-mail: [email protected] light rail transit. Telephone: 604-456-2420 Facsimile: 604-439-2585 Pre-Design Community Consultation: Phase 2 • September – November 2006 1 PORT MANN/HIGHWAY 1 ACCESS AND INTERCHANGE IMPROVEMENTS: BACKGROUND HIGHLIGHTS OF PRE-DESIGN CONSULTATION: PORT MANN/HIGHWAY 1 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PHASE 1 RESULTS PRE-DESIGN CONSULTATION PROGRAM The Project Team is currently undertaking environmental impact Earlier this year, the Gateway Program conducted Pre-design The Ministry of Transportation conducted the fi rst of three stages assessment studies for the Port Mann/Highway 1 Project based on the of public consultation in February, March and April 2006 regarding pre-design concepts identifi ed in the January 2006 Program Defi nition Consultation: Phase 1. More than 3,400 people participated proposed improvements to the Port Mann/Highway 1 corridor. Report. Field work completed in 2005 documented existing conditions in the consultation program. Highlights of the results of this Phase 1 of the Pre-design Consultation sought public input on goals for fi sheries, vegetation and wildlife, water