After long-planned underpass triples in price, Pitt Meadows declines to kick in $50M

A major improvement for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists on a busy Pitt Meadows street is now off-track with construction costs spiraling out of control and the city declining to pay.

Construction costs for a new underpass to deal with persistent train delays on Harris Road, the city’s main north-south route, have more than tripled from $63 million to $195 million.

The underpass was supposed to be funded by the federal government, the Port of Vancouver and CP Rail, which maintains a bustling railyard at the west end of the city.

But the port, which is leading the project, asked the city to kick in a quarter of the construction costs, up to $49.6 million. It

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