NW should really be a hub city between Surrey, Burnaby & Coquitlam, but there has been a multi-generational resistance pattern. BC can contain the area of Switzerland 23 times, yet BC has yet to reach the population of 1 Switzerland. Canada is nowhere close to containing 1% of the world's population.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=151877&page=8,
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=675322
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=151877&page=3
http://www.translink.ca/en/Plans-and-Projects/Roads-Bridges-and-Goods-Movement/Pattullo-Bridge.aspx
http://buzzer.translink.ca/category/planning-for-the-future/united-boulevard-extension
https://www.google.ca/search?q=Pattullo+Bridge+replacement+options&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=tNvgUpOPIMrtoATXj4HgDw&ved=0CHQQsAQ&biw=1422&bih=776&dpr=0.9