Where the City stops and the province starts
Work on a Surrey municipal street is permitted by the City of Surrey. Work on a provincial highway is permitted by the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, and that stays true where the highway runs through Surrey — the city boundary does not change who owns the road.
This matters because Surrey has more provincial corridors crossing it than most municipalities in the Lower Mainland. A job on 56 Avenue may be a City permit at one end and a MoTI permit where it becomes Highway 10.
It is the most common thing contractors get wrong here, and the correction costs an application sitting in the wrong queue rather than being processed.
Frequently asked
The City of Surrey for municipal streets. The BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure for provincial highways, including where they pass through Surrey. If your job touches both, it needs both.
Every flagger we put on a site holds current BC TCP certification, which is the provincial standard and applies in Surrey the same as anywhere else in British Columbia.
Yes. Dispatch is staffed around the clock. Full closures on arterials are rarely approved during peak hours, which pushes a lot of Surrey work to nights and weekends.
Who issues the permit
City of Surrey
Municipal streets in Surrey.
surrey.caBC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI)
Provincial highways and their rights-of-way, anywhere in BC — including where a highway runs through a municipality.
Provincial corridors through Surrey
- Highway 1 — Trans-Canada
- Highway 99
- Highway 91
- Highway 10 — 56 Avenue
- Highway 15 — Pacific Highway
- Highway 17 — South Fraser Perimeter Road