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VICTORIA — B.C.’s transportation ministry is sinking millions of dollars worth of repairs into a sinking section of the South Fraser Perimeter Road — less than six years after the billion-dollar highway opened to traffic.

A section of Highway 17 in Delta, built over a landfill, has started to deform. Emergency repairs to the so-called “garbage bumps” will cost the province more than $3 million.

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The stretch of road, just west of 96th Street and the Alex Fraser Bridge, has been steadily sinking and contorting in spots to form a sharp series of mounds that can cause vehicles to bounce precariously while travelling at the posted speed limit of 80 kph.

“When you say bump, it’s not just a bump — people think a speed bump, but it’s more like a take-off spot,” said NDP MLA Ravi Kahlon, whose Delta South riding encompasses the problem spot.

“My son is the only one I know who likes it because he likes to fly. Literally, he’s like, ‘Dad why are you slowing down? Go faster so the car can jump up a couple feet … he thinks it’s like a rollercoaster ride.”