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Improved access, a pro-business attitude and tax breaks drive real estate values

Sandy Blue remembers less than two years ago trying to give directions for getting to Maple Ridge, one of B.C.’s largest municipalities, from the U.S. border.

Then, the city’s manager of economic development explains, it was all about the size and type of vehicle, ferry schedules or, more likely, recommended detours through Mission or Coquitlam.

Now, of course, it is a straight, 30-minute drive from the border to the Trans Canada and across the new Golden Ears Bridge into Maple Ridge. Gone, too, is the infamous bottleneck at Pitt River, where a new multi-lane bridge was completed this year to cut the commute into the rest of Metro Vancouver.