DELTA (May 31, 2010) Recommendations to reduce the harmful impact on businesses from hours of gridlock on BC highways and roads following a traffic accident are now supported by chambers of commerce across BC.
At the BC Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting over the past weekend the recommendations became policy. The chambers of commerce, representing thousands of small business and corporations in the province, met to discuss and vote on priority business issues.
This new policy, calling for the BC Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure to coordinate all emergency and other services to expedite the return of traffic flow after an accident or other incident requiring the closure of a road, will join a large agenda of topics the BC Chamber will now take to the provincial and federal governments as the collective “voice of business”.
“We’ve reached the stage where our provincial highways need to operated as a single system simply because moving more people and goods in a shrinking space has grown ever more complex” said John Appleby, Delta Chamber of Commerce board chair.
The Delta Chamber of Commerce is a 450-member non-profit corporation of member companies and organizations in Delta acting as the voice of business locally, provincially and nationally, and providing business networking, discounted services, learning opportunities to its members.
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CONTACT:
John Appleby, Chair
Delta Chamber of Commerce
604 710 2836
jsapple@telus.net