BC Highway Construction - Page 84

madog222 · #**1661** Posted **May 13, 2023, 1:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Metro-One

So does anyone have any info on the Highway one 4 lane expansion projects for Selkirk Mountain and Jumping Creek?

They are not on the BC transport projects website but are listed here as going to Procurement this summer...

https://www.infrastructurebc.com/wp2/wp-...-Spring-2023-Major-Projects-Brochure.pdf

Also of note, not a single project in the Okanagan is listed here...

The BC NDP really do hate the Okanagan it seems.

Probably because they are not major projects, just a few kilometers each.

BC MOTI will be busy with 2021 flood recovery for a few more years, I expect many of these minor projects (Boucherie and Westlake Road, Quesnel Bypass) to be on the backburner until then.

Metro-One · #**1662** Posted **May 13, 2023, 1:37 PM**

Would still be nice to be linked a basic schematic on their website.

flipper316 · #**1663** Posted **May 17, 2023, 3:48 AM**

https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/427086/...-year-s-highway-repaving-projects#427086

madog222 · #**1664** Posted **May 27, 2023, 4:34 AM**

Kicking Horse Canyon from late April.

Protection Mesh Along Cut 4 by B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, on Flickr

Excavation at Cut 4 by B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, on Flickr

flipper316 · #**1665** Posted **Jul 5, 2023, 11:06 PM**

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news...or-long-awaited-keating-overpass-7234944

flipper316 · #**1666** Posted **Jul 25, 2023, 3:07 AM**

https://www.castanet.net/news/Salmon-Arm...through-Tappen-to-start-this-fall#438352

craner · #**1667** Posted **Jul 25, 2023, 5:24 PM**

Nice to see Ford to Tappen get underway.
Hoping BC announces a few fore “Projects Under Development” for their Kamloops to Alberta 4-Laning program soon.

Dengler Avenue · #**1668** Posted **Aug 3, 2023, 12:18 AM**

I just came across this for 101 on Sunshine Coast: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/trans...ghway-101-alternate-route-planning-study
That's cool.

Denscity · #**1669** Posted **Aug 4, 2023, 1:52 AM**

I saw today 4 laning plans on Hwy 1 east of Revelstoke between the McDonald snow shed and Jumping Creek.

Dengler Avenue · #**1670** Posted **Aug 4, 2023, 2:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

I saw today 4 laning plans on Hwy 1 east of Revelstoke between the McDonald snow shed and Jumping Creek.

Link please.

Tvisforme · #**1671** Posted **Aug 4, 2023, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

Link please.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation-projects/highway1-kamloops-alberta

jimmyboy95 · #**1672** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 5:51 AM**

The Kicking Horse Phase 4 has been an enormous project, so after its completed, many smaller 4 laning projects will hopefully be announced. The work in Chase and Salmon Arm should be mostly completed by then, and Tappen 4 laning and RW Bruhn Bridge replacement in Sicamous should be well underway.

After the 2 Chase projects, the 2 Salmon Arm projects, and Tappen project are completed, there will be less than 20km of 2 or 3 lane highway remaining between Kamloops and Salmon Arm. BC should work on getting that all finished up, so then its 4 or more lanes continuously from Horseshoe Bay to Salmon Arm. And, the title of the entire initiative could be shortened 'Salmon Arm to Alberta 4 laning' instead of 'Kamloops to Alberta'. Seems a little less daunting of a name.

On the outskirts of Chase there will be a short section of 2 lanes remaining, through the Neskonlith Indian Band. Planning for the widening of this section is supposed to be in the works. The government is in much consultation with the First Nations and working out a land swap. There will likely be many band members and companies working on the project when it happens. At least when that one is complete, the continuous 4 lanes from the coast will end at Chase. Not quite Salmon Arm, but really shouldn't be much to finish through Sorrento and from Tappen to Salmon Arm.

Ozabald · #**1673** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by jimmyboy95

The Kicking Horse Phase 4 has been an enormous project, so after its completed, many smaller 4 laning projects will hopefully be announced. The work in Chase and Salmon Arm should be mostly completed by then, and Tappen 4 laning and RW Bruhn Bridge replacement in Sicamous should be well underway.

After the 2 Chase projects, the 2 Salmon Arm projects, and Tappen project are completed, there will be less than 20km of 2 or 3 lane highway remaining between Kamloops and Salmon Arm. BC should work on getting that all finished up, so then its 4 or more lanes continuously from Horseshoe Bay to Salmon Arm. And, the title of the entire initiative could be shortened 'Salmon Arm to Alberta 4 laning' instead of 'Kamloops to Alberta'. Seems a little less daunting of a name.

On the outskirts of Chase there will be a short section of 2 lanes remaining, through the Neskonlith Indian Band. Planning for the widening of this section is supposed to be in the works. The government is in much consultation with the First Nations and working out a land swap. There will likely be many band members and companies working on the project when it happens. At least when that one is complete, the continuous 4 lanes from the coast will end at Chase. Not quite Salmon Arm, but really shouldn't be much to finish through Sorrento and from Tappen to Salmon Arm.

Though it's great the TCH is being four-laned from Kamloops to AB, it is unfortunate BC is going the cheap route. Undivided four lanes with commercial and private driveway access allowed; plus no upgrades through city centres such as Salmon Arm. Not a four-lane controlled access divided highway.

Metro-One · #**1674** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 9:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ozabald

Though it's great the TCH is being four-laned from Kamloops to AB, it is unfortunate BC is going the cheap route. Undivided four lanes with commercial and private driveway access allowed; plus no upgrades through city centres such as Salmon Arm. Not a four-lane controlled access divided highway.

None of the new 4 lane sections have commercial and private driveway access. They are also all divided with median barriers.

Maybe you missed the entire conversation about the lack of Federal funding and the extreme price per km.

Dengler Avenue · #**1675** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 9:32 PM**

@Ozabald might have Sorrento and Salmon Arm in mind in that comment.

flipper316 · #**1676** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 11:03 PM**

https://www.abbynews.com/news/fraser-val...Bi6BSEUrzX4A-3B8wiHjByzwptYU7U6xe0Be9MRk

Denscity · #**1677** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 12:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

Link please.

Forgot where I saw it and I don’t know how lol!
Thanks tv

Tvisforme · #**1678** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 1:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

Forgot where I saw it and I don’t know how lol!
Thanks tv

Happy to help out, it was an interesting read!

craner · #**1679** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 3:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

@Ozabald might have Sorrento and Salmon Arm in mind in that comment.

Yeah - why wouldn’t they just build bypasses rather than expanding the route through town with all the intersections & lights ??

Ozabald · #**1680** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 2:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by craner

Yeah - why wouldn’t they just build bypasses rather than expanding the route through town with all the intersections & lights ??

It's the BC way. Build/upgrade highways on the cheap and then as the years go by; maybe upgrade at a much higher cost than if the work was originally done.

Look at the Inland Island highway (BC-17). Many planned interchanges were not built and the original highway was shoehorned in to be used between Lantzville and Parksville; rather than upgrading or building a new stretch.