Infrastructure becomes identity
Transit changes how a city works, and how it understands itself.
The story
The Daily Hive report covers the naming of the Surrey–Langley SkyTrain extension and its connection to BC political history.
Southwood perspective
The Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension will change more than commuting patterns. It will influence where housing is built, how neighbourhoods connect and how Metro Vancouver's centre of gravity continues moving south and east. Naming the line for former premier Dave Barrett also turns infrastructure into public memory, attaching a political history to a project that will shape the region for decades.
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