Highway 7 Widening - 266th St. to 287th St. | U/C - Page 5

Vantage · #81 Posted **May 4, 2026, 7:57 AM**

Thanks!

MFRH Pics · #82 Posted **May 29, 2026, 1:21 AM**

I drove the entire length today. Everything is looking almost complete except for that final construction spot at the western end in Whonnock (272nd).
Jersey barriers have been installed. There is still one lane each way and the lane lines have not been painted yet, but it's getting close.

I'm undecided to toss the drone in the air this Sunday or wait till June 7th. I'll see how it looks Saturday and decide then. Can't wait for the puppy to be finished.

MFRH Pics · #83 Posted **May 30, 2026, 1:15 AM**

2 lanes each way the full length, except for the section at 272nd. No lines painted yet.

Vantage · #84 Posted **May 30, 2026, 3:29 AM**

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2 lanes each way the full length, except for the section at 272nd. No lines painted yet.

Great to hear!

MFRH Pics · #85 Posted **May 31, 2026, 7:44 PM**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hogw1IfkWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p_tgp3RQCQ

MFRH Pics · #86 Posted **Jul 1, 2026, 3:30 PM**

Lougheed is now 4-lanes from Vancouver to Mission.

There's still some Jersey Barriers to be installed and lines to be painted at the western end in Whonnock. If they complete these by Friday or Saturday (Jul 3 or 4), I'll toss the drone in the air this coming Sunday for a final set of videos. If not done then, I'll do it on Jul 12th.

hollywoodnorth · #87 Posted **Jul 1, 2026, 4:06 PM**

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Lougheed is now 4-lanes from Vancouver to Mission.

There's still some Jersey Barriers to be installed and lines to be painted at the western end in Whonnock. If they complete these by Friday or Saturday (Jul 3 or 4), I'll toss the drone in the air this coming Sunday for a final set of videos. If not done then, I'll do it on Jul 12th.

Thanks for all the work on this thread and on the highway one thread!

aberdeen5698 · #88 Posted **Jul 1, 2026, 4:51 PM**

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Lougheed is now 4-lanes from Vancouver to Mission.

At last!

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Thanks for all the work on this thread and on the highway one thread!

Seconded!

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I'll toss the drone in the air this coming Sunday...

Be sure to catch it on the way back down!

MFRH Pics · #89 Posted **Jul 1, 2026, 5:18 PM**

Be sure to catch it on the way back down![/QUOTE]

LOL. I'll try!

JYVR · #90 Posted **Jul 1, 2026, 10:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by MFRH Pics

Lougheed is now 4-lanes from Vancouver to Mission.

There's still some Jersey Barriers to be installed and lines to be painted at the western end in Whonnock. If they complete these by Friday or Saturday (Jul 3 or 4), I'll toss the drone in the air this coming Sunday for a final set of videos. If not done then, I'll do it on Jul 12th.

Thanks for making all the progress videos. Having grown up in that area it's great to see the final segment finish.

I'm old enough to remember when they first widened 240th to 266th. Next I recall they built the new bridge over the Stave, eventually closed the original truss bridge, then widened 287-Silverdale with the 4 lanes over Stave River. Later they did Nelson to Oliver, then finally Nelson to Silverdale, and now finally the last segment 287-272.

I think that whole timeline took some 35ish years.

Dave2 · #91 Posted **Jul 5, 2026, 12:32 AM**

Four lanes to Mission? Well, at least we know the “when” now, Phil.

Vancouver Sun, April 21 1962. Not sure where this “2800 foot tunnel” was. That’s 0.85 kilometres.

MFRH Pics · #92 Posted **Jul 12, 2026, 6:26 PM**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9cCd0FltNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVxhung3O8Q

As this job is now complete. This will be the last set of videos for this project.

MFRH Pics · #93 Posted **Jul 12, 2026, 6:28 PM**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcUO3N2lh_s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZJPEFC6Wu8

flipper316 · #94 Posted **Jul 13, 2026, 4:28 AM**

In the US this would've been a freeway. Yet here it takes decades to construct a simple 4 lane road. At least it's done. Wonder if it'll ever be upgraded to a freeway .

moosejaw · #95 Posted **Jul 13, 2026, 2:18 PM**

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In the US this would've been a freeway. Yet here it takes decades to construct a simple 4 lane road. At least it's done. Wonder if it'll ever be upgraded to a freeway .

Of course not. Only place i know where traffic lights were common place on freeways up until the last few years. Its not money, Its not effeciency, its about Optics (AKA Steveston/99 Diverging Diamond Concept).

hollywoodnorth · #96 Posted **Jul 13, 2026, 6:54 PM**

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Four lanes to Mission? Well, at least we know the “when” now, Phil.

Vancouver Sun, April 21 1962. Not sure where this “2800 foot tunnel” was. That’s 0.85 kilometres.

AI says this >>

Good puzzle, because the answer isn't anywhere near Abbotsford — there's no highway tunnel in the Fraser Valley at all. That last paragraph is a classic tacked-on wire fact about the broader Trans-Canada project Gaglardi was touting, not the local section he was opening.

It's almost certainly the China Bar Tunnel in the Fraser Canyon, between Yale and Boston Bar. The evidence lines up neatly:

The cost is a dead match. The roughly one-mile section of highway containing China Bar cost $5 million to build — the most expensive stretch of two-lane highway ever built in BC to that point. A $5M price tag on a tunnel in 1962 BC points to exactly one project. Ashcroftcachecreekjournal

The timing fits. China Bar was completed in 1961, so "has been constructed" in an April 1962 article is right — it was the government's freshest tunnel brag, and the longest of the seven Fraser Canyon tunnels built for the TCH. Ashcroftcachecreekjournal

Same program. The Fraser Canyon tunnels were the marquee engineering feat of the very Trans-Canada Highway push Gaglardi was celebrating that day, so a correspondent padding the story with the tunnel stat makes sense.

The one wrinkle is the length. China Bar is usually cited at about 610 metres, or 2,000 feet, and a 1960s postcard pegs it at 2,090 feet. So "2,800 feet" is either a typo/transposition of 2,090, or the reporter counted the tunnel plus its rock-cut approaches. Either way, nothing else in BC in 1962 comes close on both length and that $5 million figure — the Deas Island (Massey) Tunnel was shorter and cost three times as much, and every other canyon tunnel was well under 1,000 feet. ExploreNorth BlogFlickr

So: 0.85 km of "flamboyant Phil" spending those tax dollars rather than leaving them in the coffers, about 175 km upriver from where he was standing.

Tvisforme · #97 Posted **Jul 13, 2026, 7:10 PM**

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AI says this >>

Good puzzle, because the answer isn't anywhere near Abbotsford — there's no highway tunnel in the Fraser Valley at all. That last paragraph is a classic tacked-on wire fact about the broader Trans-Canada project Gaglardi was touting, not the local section he was opening...

Good find. Given how newspaper layout and printing were done in the past, combined with news stories being written so that less important information is towards the end, it's quite likely that the text about the tunnel was dropped for space. Someone must have inadvertently missed the final paragraph.

Dave2 · #98 Posted **Jul 13, 2026, 8:10 PM**

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Good find. Given how newspaper layout and printing were done in the past, combined with news stories being written so that less important information is towards the end, it's quite likely that the text about the tunnel was dropped for space. Someone must have inadvertently missed the final paragraph.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks to hollywoodnorth for cracking the case!