Editing Surrey, British Columbia (section)

===History===
The first non-Indigenous settlement of Surrey was founded near [[Crescent Beach, Surrey|Crescent Beach]], located in [[South Surrey]]; another was founded near Bridgeview/[[Brownsville, British Columbia|Brownsville]], located in North Surrey. Early trails and roads helped to encourage the settlement of Surrey. The first trail built by a settler was the 1861 the [[Kennedy Trail]]. James Kennedy built the trail to provide a route between New Westminster and the natural pasture land on the Mud Bay Flats next to the Serpentine River.<ref>Early Trails and Roads in the Lower Fraser Valley, W. N. Draper, British Columbia Historical Quarterly, January 1943, Vol. 7, p. 49-56.</ref> The Semiahmoo Wagon Road was built in 1873 between Brownsville (opposite New Westminster) and Semiahmoo (Blaine).<ref>The Semiahmoo Trail: Myths Makers Memories by Ron Dowle, Surrey Historical Society, 1998.</ref> The first regular ferry service across the Fraser River started in 1882 on the steam ferry ''K de K'', with the point of departure at Brownsville.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 11, 1993 |title=Surrey History |url=http://members.shaw.ca/jack_brown/surrey.html |access-date=March 9, 2011 |website=Members.shaw.ca |archive-date=June 13, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090613034316/http://members.shaw.ca/jack_brown/surrey.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The ferry landed on the Surrey side at the start of Old Yale Road, which connected directly inland to Yale and was a major gold rush trail.

The [[New Westminster Bridge|New Westminster Rail Bridge]] was opened in 1904, allowing personal vehicles to cross the [[Fraser River]] on the upper deck. The lower deck, for rail, enabled [[British Columbia Electric Railway|BC Electric Railway]] to finally construct the Interurban line, an electric suburb commuter rail route connecting Chilliwack to Vancouver. It opened for service in 1910, and ran through Kennedy, [[Newton Town Centre|Newton]], Sullivan, and [[Cloverdale, Surrey|Cloverdale]]. Two of the BCER cars (1225 & 1304) are restored and are operated by the [[Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society]] on the mainline between Cloverdale and Sullivan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society |url=http://www.fvhrs.org/ |access-date=August 1, 2012 |website=Fvhrs.org |archive-date=July 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720053612/http://www.fvhrs.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1937, the then two-lane [[Pattullo Bridge]] linking [[New Westminster]] and Surrey was opened.

In the early 1950s, BC Electric Railways ceased operating its interurban line, thus increasing the number of vehicles on Surrey roads. [[British Columbia Highway 10|Highway 10]] was built in 1953, and [[British Columbia Highway 15|Highway 15]] in 1957. In 1964, the provincial government completed Highway 401 and the [[Port Mann Bridge]]; that section of roadway would later be renamed [[British Columbia Highway 1|Highway 1]]. In 1959, the [[George Massey Tunnel]] was opened, along with what is known as [[British Columbia Highway 99|Highway 99]]. With the completion of the new Highways 1 and 99, the Fraser Highway and King George Boulevard became major arteries.

In the early 1990s, Surrey saw the return of rail transit with the [[SkyTrain (Vancouver)|SkyTrain]] [[Expo Line (TransLink)|Expo Line]] expansion into Surrey. The four stations added were [[Scott Road station|Scott Road]], [[Gateway station (SkyTrain)|Gateway]], [[Surrey Central station|Surrey Central]] and [[King George station|King George]].