Trans-Canada, other highways getting upgrades
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 5, 2003 | 5:47 PM ET
CBC News
Federal and provincial politicians said they will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on highways to improve safety, take the Trans-Canada from single to double lanes, and eliminate bottlenecks.
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell on Wednesday promised $125 million for improvements to the Trans-Canada and $211 million for border crossings to the U.S. near Vancouver.
The Kicking Horse Pass section of the Trans-Canada, between Golden, B.C., and Lake Louise, Alta., is twice as dangerous as the average B.C. highway.
The federal and provincial governments will split the $125-million cost of replacing the key but "treacherous" 10-Mile (Park) bridge.
Another $211 million will be spent on the border crossings, to reduce congestion and facilitate trade with the U.S.
B.C. is putting $121 million into that project, Ottawa $90 million.
"In Kicking Horse Pass, we will make one of the most beautiful and the most treacherous highways in British Columbia safer," Chrétien said.
- FROM AUG. 14, 2002: Ottawa to split $400-million road work with N.B.
The prime minister is expected to announce federal money for twinning the Trans-Canada across Saskatchewan.
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