🧵1/4 BREAKING: The Province has announced that negotiations with the contractor for the new Massey crossing have collapsed and the project is being sent back out to tender.
This is a significant setback for one of BC’s most important transportation projects, and raises serious questions about the escalating costs for this project, and how this situation was allowed to develop in the first place.
BREAKING... B.C. government has FIRED the European contractor chosen in 2024 to build the new replacement George Massey Tunnel.
A new bidding process will now be conducted. #bcpoli#vanpoli#vanre
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NEW: Today, the NDP officially CANCELLED Delta’s Beedie Long Term Care project - not “re-phased,” cancelled. They out-right lied to the public.
Today in QP, I asked: When will it restart?
Answer: “no time frame...we’ve spent too much.”
Fraser Health has re-costed the price per bed to substantially lower it. The government is stonewalling them.
This is happening in Burnaby too. It's appalling! #BCpoli @GlobalTV@RobShaw_BC@CBCAlerts@CTVVancouver@VancouverSun@DeltaOptimist
NEW: After 8 years of work on the Massey Tunnel replacement, the Province is now scrambling to rewrite its construction plan at the eleventh hour, requesting to nearly DOUBLE its footprint in Deas Island Park from 4.2 to 7.8 hectares.
1,500 trees are already gone, with many more likely to follow. And this massive change is coming before the project even has an environmental assessment certificate.
In response to my questions, TI Corp staff could not even identify a budget for the project, or a timeline for completion.
After nearly a decade of planning, how are we still here?
This isn’t how you deliver nation-building infrastructure projects.
The George Massey Tunnel replacement: a cautionary tale of stalled traffic, missed appointments, and a tunnel that moves slower than the plans to replace it.
NEW - Delta hospital ER closed AGAIN tonight 6pm to 6am Sunday, due to dr shortage, says @Fraserhealth
Continues to be largest urban ER closed by staff shortages.
#bcleg resumes Monday. Gov will be on defensive about it again, after promising to address Delta issue months ago.
I am so proud to have earned the endorsement of @IanPatonDelta , MLA for Delta South.
As a fourth-generation Delta family, a farmer, and a politician I admire - who is a strong advocate for our community - I promise to work hard, if elected, to live up to his standard of community service and dedication. Thank you MLA Paton for the honour of this endorsement.