WHAT IS GATEWAY?
The Gateway Project is the most environmentally threatening highway mega-project in British Columbia's history. It WILL affect our region's air quality and hasten global climate change. And it WON'T reduce traffic congestion.
Check out the MAP of the proposed Highway Expansion, and find out more about Gateway HERE.
Some Great Links
Why Gateway SUCKS
There ARE solutions
Smart cities are now recognizing errors of the past, cancelling highway-building plans, and simply tearing freeways down...These include Milwaukee, Seoul, Toronto, Bogata, Chenzhen, and even Los Angeles.
The Livable Region Coalition has formulated a proposal which, for a mere $300-$500 million, would reduce traffic congestion and move more people more efficiently, cleanly and comfortably, than Gateway's $7 billion plan.
Who gets the gravy?
The real agenda driving Gateway is industry pressure to increase international trade – in particular, with China, which has minimal environmental or human rights regulations.
A few must-read articles
- David Suzuki on Gateway
- BC Business: Gateway full of wrong turns
- Burnaby Newsleader speaks out
- GVRD rejects PM2/Hwy 1 Expansion with videos
- Falcon: "twinning the Massey Tunnel comes next"
- Why building highways makes traffic worse
- 1967: Strathcona rejects the freeway
- Transportation and GHG emissions
- Highway One: to the barricades!
- Community democracy in East Van
John Buker of Rail for the Valley reports: "We were on well over 20 overpasses from Chilliwack to Vancouver! I’ve heard over and over again, from people up and down the Valley, that this was actually a really fun event, & people want to do it again. News coverage:
