The region is experiencing hugely fast growth and the strain is definitely being felt. Zoning and infrastructure decisions made decades ago are really biting us

The region is experiencing hugely fast growth and the strain is definitely being felt. Zoning and infrastructure decisions made decades ago are really biting us in the ass. Plots of land cost millions yet there are several gaping holes in the Skytrain network. Major thoroughfares like Hwy 1 exits get incomplete maintenance. Locals who went to UBC, SFU, or BCIT can only afford to live in deep Maple Ridge or Cloverdale and then pay our gas prices for the privilege of working in the CoV. The same CoV that has single family density like you'd expect in Surrey. It's a mess, and big solutions like expanding the West Coast Express to all-day service with a few more stations so that suburbs can reliably grow into the valley aren't even being mentioned. One level of government says "$amount of immigration" and it's up to the province (or delegated to municipalities) to try to adapt. Meanwhile the residents of those municipalities resist any changes to density or zoning. And as a result, we get the mess we're in now.