Transport committee  Okay.

Transport committee  We have a number of roadway issues. I mentioned one. There is the South Fraser Perimeter Road, but there's a long-standing need for some better connection north of the Fraser. The other piece that James referred to is that, clearly, we have an issue, and it will become larger, o

Transport committee  That would be shared between us, the province and the municipalities.

Transport committee  We've discussed it with the province. It is a priority that they understand. Being part of the urban freight council in the gateway is a key role.

Transport committee  There are several. The Gateway Transportation Collaboration Forum came together, which is the port, TransLink, Transport Canada in the facilitation role, as well as the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure for the province. In light of the new GTCF funding, we did a bunc

Transport committee  In isolation that's a tricky thing to imagine as we think about what the regional road network would have to be to be able to support all of those kinds of interactions. I know that the port did a really great exercise in scenario planning. That could be one of the scenarios. As

Transport committee  Wow.

Transport committee  What we end up with.... I'll take, for example, a situation.... It's hard to disentangle them. New Westminster sits in the centre of the region. It is one of the oldest communities, as you're aware, and it is a choke point on the road system. There are also lots of interactions

Transport committee  I think it's quite a bit. That's one of the things for which we've been trying to bring everybody to the table in our urban freight council, which includes the port and the gateway, the regional administrators, and the CAOs of the major municipalities. It's looking at what kinds

Transport committee  Thank you, Chair. It's a pleasure to be here. We're really pleased at TransLink to see the federal government weighing in on this area and looking at us and starting a strategy discussion. As you're aware, TransLink is the regional transportation authority within metro Vancouv

Transport committee  We've learned a lot through the Canada Line initiative and this project. It was probably the first of its kind in that generation. The project itself has been an incredible success from the ridership perspective. It's above what we anticipated. It's about 140,000 boardings a day.

Transport committee  Similar to the mayor's comments, now, of that phase one program, we have under contract I think the equivalent of about 53% of the dollars, even though we've only sent invoices to the federal government for less than a quarter of that. We have those contracts under way. As we und

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members. I'll try to be faster than that. It's an honour to be here to speak about this critically important set of programs for TransLink. TransLink, as I think you're aware, is the regional transportation authority for Surrey, 20 other municipalitie