Two city councillors in Metro Vancouver want to find ways to avoid any further traffic chaos amid snowfall

Two city councillors in Metro Vancouver want to find ways to avoid any further traffic chaos like the hours-long tie-ups that stranded thousands of commuters during Tuesday night's snowstorm.

Daniel Fontaine of New Westminster and Linda Annis of Surrey say it's time for a ``snow summit'' bringing together Lower Mainland municipalities, the provincial government, transit operators, and road maintenance contractors to find a solution.

Annis says it took her nine-and-a-half hours to reach South Surrey from downtown Vancouver during the storm and Fontaine says the weather was not a surprise, so he wants to know what happened to cause the tie-ups.

He says a regional plan is needed that does better next time, and is a combined effort of the province and local municipalities across the Lower Mainland.