Official Name: | Bridgeview |
Settlement Type: | Neighbourhood of Surrey |
Pushpin Map: | CAN BC Greater Vancouver |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Metro Vancouver |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | British Columbia |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Lower Mainland |
Subdivision Type3: | Regional district |
Subdivision Name3: | Metro Vancouver |
Subdivision Type4: | Town centre |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Doug McCallum |
Leader Title1: | MP (Fed.) |
Leader Name1: | Randeep Sarai (Liberal) |
Leader Title2: | MLA (Prov.) |
Leader Name2: | Bruce Ralston (NDP) |
Timezone: | PST |
Utc Offset: | −8 |
Timezone Dst: | PDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −7 |
Coordinates: | 49.2092°N -122.8675°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code span |
Bridgeview is a neighbourhood in the Whalley town centre of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, that stretches south from the Fraser River to King George Boulevard. The neighbourhood consists of all the low-lying area between the Port Mann Bridge in the east and the Pattullo Bridge in the west.[1]
In the 1970s, dykes were constructed to prevent the neighbourhood from flooding. Water levels from prior floods had reached 8.9m (29.2feet) and 7.6m (24.9feet) in 1894 and 1948, respectively.[2]
Residents of the neighbourhood fought the municipality of Surrey in the mid-1970s to build proper sewers as septic tanks would often overflow into drainage ditches.[3] [4] Then-mayor Bill Vander Zalm and other municipal councillors resisted the idea as the municipality had industrial plans for the area.
Bridgeview is served by Scott Road station of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in the portion of South Westminster which borders the southern edge of Bridgeview, at the interchange between King George Boulevard and Scott Road.