{"id":812679,"date":"2026-07-19T18:59:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812679\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:59:37","slug":"surrey-council-approves-6m-in-public-works-contracts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812679\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey council approves $6M in public works contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Surrey council approves $6M in public works contracts<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 10:30 pm Monday, July 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Surrey council approved $6,068,803.65 in public works contracts on July 13 for the city\u2019s north end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the basic fundamentals of what we do as a council,\u201d Councillor Doug Elford remarked. \u201cIt\u2019s not sexy, it\u2019s not in the media but it\u2019s imperatively important to the people, the citizens of Surrey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Council voted in favour of a $1,689,448.95 contract for Jack Cewe Construction Ltd. for 1,830 metres of new and improved sidewalks at five locations in North Surrey, including three new crosswalks.<\/p>\n<p>These include sidewalk improvements at 96 Avenue from 120 Street to 126 Street, on 130 Street from 106 Avenue to 108 Avenue, and 92 Avenue from 160 Street to 162 Street (including a new crosswalk) and 102 Avenue from 140 Street to 141 Street as well as new crosswalks on 102 Avenue, 139 Street to 139A Street.<\/p>\n<p>The work is expected to expected to begin in August and be complete by October, with construction permitted between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>Council approved a $1,913,159.85 contract for Crown Contracting Ltd. for 144 Street \u201cactive transportation improvements\u201d between 100 Avenue and 104 Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction package related to this contract consists of constructing a multi-use pathway and roadway lighting along 144 Street between 100 Avenue and 104 Avenue,\u201d Scott Neuman, Surrey\u2019s general manager of engineering, noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/corporate-reports\/CR_2026-R151.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">corporate report. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The work is expected to begin in August and be done by November, with construction permitted between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>Council also awarded a $2,466,194.85 contract to Complete Utility Contractors Ltd. for sanitary sewer improvements at four locations in North Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction package related to this contract consists of sanitary sewer improvements to support growth and to replacing aging and undersized infrastructure,\u201d Neuman explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/corporate-reports\/CR_2026-R155.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">corporate report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The work will be at 57 Avenue and 177B Street, 124 Street from 98 Avenue to 99 Avenue, and 99 Avenue from 124 Street to 124A Street as well as lanes east and west of 128 Street and north of 96B Avenue and on Regal Drive from River Road to the 11300 block.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanitary improvements on 124 Street near Cedar Hills Elementary School will take place when school is not in session,\u201d Neuman said.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise the contract work is expected to start in August and be finished by November, weather permitting, with construction allowed between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get criticized all the time and I hear through this whole mudslinging season that we don\u2019t do enough for infrastructure, we need more infrastructure,\u201d Elford said. \u201cWell, this is infrastructure that we\u2019re approving today and it\u2019s vital to the citizens of Surrey that we do these things. Some of these aren\u2019t sexy, but they\u2019re vital. Because if somebody\u2019s toilet isn\u2019t flushing we\u2019ll be the first to hear about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey council approves $6M in public works contracts Published 10:30 pm Monday, July 13, 2026 Surrey council approved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-812679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}