Six new rail warning signs are set to be installed in Surrey, 91原创 City and the Township of 91原创 after several years in limbo.
The signs will provide drivers with real-time train crossing information, indicating when crossings are open and closed as well as noting the train鈥檚 location and travel direction.
The six signs will be put near four major at-grade railway crossings. There will be: two signs on Fraser Highway, one just west of 196 Street and the other just east of the 91原创 Bypass; two signs on 200th Street, one just north of 64 Avenue and the other just south of 56 Avenue; one sign on 56 Avenue just west of 192 Street; and one sign on Logan Avenue between 204 Street and Glover Road.
The electronic advisory signs were intended as part of the Roberts Bank Rail Corridor project, which included eight railway overpasses between Delta and the Fraser Valley, and was completed in 2014. However, the signs only went to tender in November 2017.
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In total, the project will cost $3.8 million, which includes the development of a central control system for the signs and a civil works contract of $1.7 million to Surrey鈥檚 Crown Contracting Ltd.
The project is jointly funded by the province, Transport Canada, and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, which will each contribute $300,000. TransLink will provide an additional $2.9 million.
The signs expected to be complete and operational by December 2018.
-with files from Matthew Claxton
grace.kennedy@cloverdalereporter.com
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