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More drivers taking Port Mann with repairs underway on Pattullo

SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Have you driven across the Port Mann Bridge instead of taking your usual route crossing the Pattullo this week? If so, you’re one of an extra 7,000 to 10,000 people giving it a try this week while the latter of the two is repaired.

“It’s early days, but we’re seeing more drivers choose the Port Mann Bridge,” says Greg Johnson with Transportation Investment Corp., the folks who operate the crossing. The bridge sees regular weekly traffic in the range of 100,000 to 110,000 people.

Johnson is downplaying suggestions the increase in traffic could become the new normal.

“It’s too early to know what the long term trend is going to be,” says Johnson. “That’s going to depend on day-to-day traffic volumes. Every day of the week is different from the one before. People make decisions every day depending on where they have to be, and how quickly they have to be there.

“If they want to go somewhere quickly, and they don’t want to sit in a traffic jam, they’re probably going to choose the Port Mann Bridge and make that their preferred route.”

Rehabilitation work on the Pattullo Bridge meant it was completely closed to traffic last weekend, and the bridge is down to one lane in each direction for additional repairs until late September or early October.

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