Surrey businesses, residents display mixed emotion to food truck strategy

The City of Surrey held an open house on Nov. 18 at the City Centre Library to discuss plans for a possible food truck program for the city.

The strategy is still in the early planning stages and hasn’t been voted on yet but the City is taking surveys from residents, businesses and food truck vendors to determine possible truck locations and get public input on any problems, issues or concerns about a food truck strategy.

“At this stage we’re just advertising that survey, marketing it to get the feedback of the general public, restaurant owners and operators and also food truck vendors to get their input about what the program should look like,” said project coordinator Sukhi Bahia. “[To determine] what are some of the issues we need to address moving forward so that we can have sort of a hea start on what those issues or problems may be and how to address them and mitigate them before we get going.”

DC Fast Charge stations coming to Surrey

Surrey opened up its first DC Fast Charge (DCFC) station for electric vehicles on Nov. 4.

The new station, located near the Surrey Museum in Cloverdale, just off 176 and 56A Ave, has the capability to fully charge an electric vehicle in approximately 30 minutes and is the first one of its kind south of the Fraser River.

Anna Mathewson, sustainability manager for the city of Surrey anticipates the station to be “quite busy.”

“We have already seen quite a bit of use at this Surrey Museum station, including drivers coming up from Washington state,” said Mathewson, who also pointed out the station’s strategic location. “It was located at the crossroads of Highways 10 and 15, in part to address the charging needs of travelers moving both north/south and east/west.”