Surrey council will vote tonight on a contract of roughly $10.5 million for United Earth Contractors Corp. to improve 80 Avenue between 132 Street and King George Boulevard in Newton.
The contract is for $10,554,766.68 with a spending limit set at $11,600,000.
Scott Neuman, Surrey’s general manager of engineering, stated in a corporate report coming before council on May 6 that this represents the final phase of a “multi-phased program for congestion relief and goods movement in Newton and providing multimodal infrastructure on 80 Avenue from 120 Street to King George Boulevard.”
The scope of the work is to consists widen that stretch of 80 Avenue from 132 Street to King George Boulevard to four lanes from two and build-in pedestrian and cycling infrastructure “to support growth and increased traffic volumes along this major road network (“MRN”) truck route.”
Besides the arterial widening, a new traffic signal is to be installed at 134 Street and 80 Avenue and 440 metres of 750-millimetre-diameter storm sewer is to be installed along 80 Avenue from 134 Street to King George. If the contract receives council’s approval, construction will be from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Friday beginning this month with completion expected by December 2025, “dependent on weather.”
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In December 2022 council voted to award a contract of more than $10 million to B&B Heavy Civil Construction Ltd. for widening 80 Avenue in Newton from Scott Road to 128 Street.
That contract was for $10,174,600 with an authorized spending limit of $11,192,000.
Neuman stated in a corporate report in 2022 that the aim was to relieve traffic congestion in Newton.