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Surrey is the place to be.

An average of 10,000 people have moved to the city each year over the past five years. As one million more people come to the Metro Vancouver region, many of them will settle in Surrey and surrounding communities south of the Fraser.

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One in five Metro residents will call Surrey home and the city will surpass Vancouver as B.C.’s largest community by 2041. At the same time, more and more high-tech, clean-tech and health-tech businesses are also choosing to locate in Surrey. Yet, when it comes to rapid transit, we are only served by the Expo Line built in 1986 and haven’t seen any new rapid-transit capital improvements in the city since 1994.

In 2014, the mayors council unanimously agreed on a vision that makes investing in transit and transportation a key priority for the region. A 27-kilometre LRT network that will connect Surrey City Centre with Guildford, Newton, Fleetwood, Clayton, Cloverdale and Langley is a key part of the plan. This LRT network is critical to the future of Surrey. It’s meant to create and build the community, and establish a ground-level energy and ambience that speaks to a city of the future.