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Prompted by public pressure, TransLink and the city have restored lanes of traffic along much of 104th Avenue as part of the design for the $1.65 billion Surrey light rail transit project, officials said in a technical briefing Thursday.

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Instead of crimping lanes of traffic down to one in either direction of tram tracks running down the centre of 104th Avenue, TransLink project director Stephan Mehr said there will be two lanes wherever the existing right-of-way will allow, which will be about 70 per cent of the route.

“We heard a lot about the worry of congestion on 104th Avenue during our last public consultation open houses a year ago,” Mehr said.

In the first version of the design, the city and TransLink didn’t anticipate restoring 104th Avenue to four lanes of vehicle traffic until well after the project’s completion.

The LRT service is expected to more than double 104th Avenue’s capacity to carry people, Mehr said, but “we wanted to look at what kind of solution we could come up with to make sure that the traffic and any perceived congestion issues could be dealt with.”