Road improvements are coming to 72nd Avenue in Clayton Heights.
Surrey city council voted to approve Corporate Report 2025-R090 at its regular council meeting April 28. A contract for improvements in Clayton on 72nd between 188th and 196th Streets, worth just under $10 million, was awarded.
The report, submitted by Scott Neuman, GM of the Engineering Department, recommended council award contract no. 1724-018-11 to Tybo Contracting Ltd. in the amount of $9,173,745 (including GST) for Arterial Widening from 188th Street to 196th Street along 72nd Avenue. Neuman recommended the expenditure authorization limit be set at $10,100,000 (including GST and contingency).
Neuman also recommended council award consultant agreement No. 1724-018 C1 to Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd. in the amount of $369,799.50 (including GST) for the related engineering construction services, and set the expenditure authorization limit at $407,000 (including contingencies and GST).
“This contract involves road improvements along 72nd Avenue from 188th Street to 193rd Street, to a four lane standard with cycling and pedestrian infrastructure,” Neuman wrote. “As well, these works include converting the segment of 72nd Avenue from 193rd Street to 196th Street from two travel lanes and two parking lanes to four travel lanes such that the entire segment of 72nd Avenue from 188th Street through to 200th Street in Langley is complete and consistent.”
In the report, Neuman said the city recognized the “high remand” for parking spots in the Clayton area after they conducted a public consultation.
“(To) mitigate the loss of on-street parking, the contract work also includes the creation of approximately 74 on-street parking spaces on adjacent streets and includes maintaining 97 on-street parking spaces along 72nd Avenue,” Neuman continued.
(See map above for location of road work and for the additional on-street parking spaces that will be created.)
Neuman reported that the engineering construction services consist of contract administration and field inspection services, including civil work inspection by Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd.
According to the contract, construction will be permitted from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday to Friday, which complies with Surrey’s noise bylaws.
An Invitation to Tender was sent out for the work and the city received nine bids. Visit surrey.ca and navigate to Corporate Report 2025-R090 to view all the bids.
Now that council has approved the report and awarded contract no. 1724-018-11 to Tybo Contracting Ltd., the project is expected to begin in May, 2025, and be completed one year later in the spring of 2026.
Funding for the project is available in the already approved 2025 Transportation and Utilities Budget.
According to the report, “transportation improvements are 85 per cent funded through Development Cost Charges (DCCs), with 15 per cent funding through General Revenue. The Utility work is funded 55 per cent through DCCs and 45 per cent through General Revenue.”
