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LETTER: Surrey already pays its fair share to TransLink

Surrey — The Editor,

What a ridiculous concept to raise the sales tax in all of B.C. to fund transit initiates in Vancouver.

The TransLink tax grab has only benefited the people north of the Fraser River for the past 25 years. Surrey, has shouldered all the high costs of commuting and extra TransLink gas taxes, now made even higher with tolls on two bridges and a third on the way.

Give us a break.

They are threatening "no Broadway corridor rapid transit" if the referendum is not passed.

I say, "Who cares?" Vancouver cares. So what?

I have lived in Surrey for more than 25 years and am still waiting for the broken promises to be made good.

Surrey's new mayor Linda Hepner was named vice-chair of TransLink's mayors' council to get the "Yes "vote.

A stacked TransLink board - what a joke. Surrey now has almost the same population as Vancouver - time to make good on broken promises for our rapid transit corridor through to Langley (promised 25 years ago), before Vancouver gets a fifth rapid transit line.

Hey, why not just make all the drivers in B.C. pay the TransLink gas tax? That's fair too, isn't it? Or why not toll all the bridges in B.C.? Vote no.

Paul Fitzgerald, Surrey