The time is now to have your say on the future of downtown Langley City.
One of our community’s oldest and busiest commercial districts, site of parades and summer festivals, is going to get a facelift.
Langley City will be digging up decades-old sewer and water pipes next year, under Fraser Highway from 204th to 206th Street. It will be a rare chance to redefine the look of the City’s commercial core.
If you have any thoughts at all on the one-way, please speak up about them. Contact Langley City, speak to council, write a letter to the mayor (or to the editor) and fill out an online survey on the City’s website.
The last time the one-way saw changes this big was when it was transformed into a one-way section, back in the late 1990s.
If you weren’t around before the one-way was introduced, it’s hard to remember what the downtown was like. One of the issues was vacancies – lots of them. Fast traffic and big trucks rumbled down Fraser Highway. McBurney Lane was a muddy empty lot.
The change to one-way traffic was not universally welcomed, and while some merchants liked it, others complained it hurt their business.
But it’s now become unthinkable to go back to the way things were.
What other positive changes could the City make to Fraser Highway? What new amenities could be added, and what existing features must be preserved?
Whatever happens next year, after the sewer and water works are completed, will likely last for a generation.
So don’t sit back and hope. Stand up, and have your say now.
– M.C.