New Year. Same Highway. Same Gridlock. South Surrey Is Still Waiting.

2025 arrives and the Highway 99 corridor through South Surrey is exactly as dysfunctional as it was in 2024, 2023, and 2022. The plans are real. The funding is not.

Every January, the same resolution forms in the minds of South Surrey commuters: maybe this is the year something changes. The Massey Tunnel replacement is finally moving, the province says. The interchange improvements are in the plan. The timeline is concrete this time.

Every January, the resolution dissolves by February.

Highway 99 through South Surrey continues to function at a level of congestion that adds between thirty and sixty minutes to commute times during peak hours, depending on conditions. The King George Boulevard interchange remains one of the most reliably awful pieces of road infrastructure in the Lower Mainland. The approaches to the Massey Tunnel back up to South Surrey on bad days.

The Massey Tunnel replacement bridge is, genuinely, in a more advanced state than it has ever been. Construction is occurring. That is real progress, and it should be acknowledged. What it will not do, by itself, is fix the South Surrey end of the problem — the interchanges, the signal timing, the surface street connections that funnel an entire region's worth of traffic through intersections designed for a different era.

Those fixes require money and political will that have not yet materialized into committed, funded, scheduled projects. Until they do, South Surrey's commuters will continue to do what they have always done — leave earlier, arrive later, and calculate their lives around a highway that does not work.

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