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Gateway's NFPR cancelled to applause in New Westminster

BLOG POST posted on May 20, 2011 by edoherty

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Protest Camp Against SFPR, across the Fraser from New West
Protest Camp Against SFPR, across the Fraser from New West

Gateway's United Boulevard extension cancelled to applause in New Westminster

By Eric Doherty, May 20, 2011

On Thursday (May 19), a large and determined group of New Westminster residents gathered to find out what design TransLink would be pushing for the first section of the North Fraser Perimeter Road. Instead, the crowd burst into boisterous applause when Sany Zein, TransLink’s director of roads, announced that TransLink would cancel the North Fraser Perimeter Road portion of the Gateway Program because local residents and New Westminster council would not support it.

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