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Surrey’s Mayor is facing charges she hasn’t done enough when it comes to transit from the party trying to wrest control of city council from the Surrey First Party.

Stephanie Ryan with the Surrey Civic Coalition says the Mayor during her term has fallen short in getting transit improvements, “Mayor Watts was Chair of the Mayors Council for Translink for a year and I think most people would point to a lack of results in getting some more equitable funding for Surrey and south of the Fraser during that one year tenure.”

But, Dianne Watts says progress at Translink is more than just an increase in transit services, “There is a realization that over the next 20 years, 70% of the regions growth is coming south of the Fraser. So, I think there was a process where the mind set had to be changed.”

Watts says the governance structure of Translink also needs to be changed.

Original article: http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocal/Story.aspx?ID=1573295

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