Editing Surrey, British Columbia (section)

==== Transportation and land use ====

The Sustainability Charter hinges on a large reduction on [[automobile dependency]] requiring a well established transit infrastructure to the multiple districts of Surrey. In 2008, [[Gordon Campbell (Canadian politician)|Gordon Campbell]] announced the extension of the [[Expo Line (TransLink)|Expo Line]] beyond the current terminus to as far as Langley.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 16, 2008 |title=More Skytrains for Surrey |work=Surrey Leader |id={{ProQuest|373127516}}}}</ref> However, financial shortfall came upon Translink shortly after, and many of the announced plans came to a halt. Plans to expand northward via the [[Evergreen Extension|Evergreen extension]] came to fruition prior to the vision of extending [[light rail]] out to Guildford, Newton and Langley. Mayor Watts attempted impose equal tolling across the region to assist with funding transit to reduce car reliance.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 15, 2012 |title=A better Surrey hinges on halted transit plans |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/a-better-surrey-hinges-on-halted-transit-plans/article4279109/ |access-date=February 13, 2013 |archive-date=May 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520082048/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/a-better-surrey-hinges-on-halted-transit-plans/article4279109/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Protecting agricultural land reserves also play an important part in the charter of sustainability. The idea behind the agricultural land reserves is to encourage and increase the role of urban agriculture, thus reducing the reliance of food transport and increasing the quality and availability of food to local people. The Charter takes the idea one step further by encouraging food processing [[agribusiness]] to complete the supply chain circle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sustainability Charter: a commitment to sustainability |url=http://www.surrey.ca/files/Sustainability_Charter.pdf |access-date=February 13, 2013 |publisher=City of Surrey |pages=20 |archive-date=August 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818092829/http://www.surrey.ca/files/Sustainability_Charter.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In a case study of Toronto completed by Pierre Filion, he claims that while transit and natural area conservation are successful at achieving their respective immediate objectives, they "do not modify metropolitan-wide relations between transportation and land use...in a fashion that is consistent with smart growth". Filion identifies that the largest obstacles are [[NIMBY]] reactions from the public and the limited finances from the public sector.<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Vojnovic |editor-first=Igor |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781609173470/ |title=Urban sustainability : a global perspective |publisher=Michigan State University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9781611860559 |location=East Lansing |pages=509–523 |access-date=February 13, 2013 |archive-date=October 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017001357/http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781609173470/ |url-status=live }}</ref>