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Originally Posted by Glacier
They could. In fact, the engineering report from 20 years ago said they should cut through the Turtle Valley (a wide and easy constructing valley), and avoid all the expensive blasting that is required to widen the road along Sorento, Chase, and the rest of the Shuswap Lake area.
The government, for some weird reason, does not want to bypass Sorrento and area. I can only assume that they don't want to bypass towns or something.
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My understanding was that they did not want to damage the agricultural land in the Turtle Valley, and it would have still required maintenance of the existing route. However, would a bypass have offset the maintenance cost by increasing economic activity? It would reduce the drive time between Salmon Arm and Kamloops to well under an hour, which would attract shoppers and commuters from Salmon Arm to Kamloops. Also it would decrease shipping costs and drive times for trucks.
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