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DOODSON’S CORNER – The Sea-to-Sky Highway Improvement Project, first begun in 2003, is now about 80 per cent complete and will be finished in the fall, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Kevin Falcon announced today.
“The project is on time and on budget,” said Falcon. “The new highway will be safer, more efficient and reliable, and will provide economic opportunities that the benefit communities along the Sea-to-Sky corridor and the entire province.”
Falcon made the announcement at Doodson’s Corner, 17 kilometres north of Horseshoe Bay, where a sharp corner has been transformed into gentler, safer curve. “The engineering on this corner dramatically contrasts the old highway with the new,” said Falcon.
The
project will improve public safety with more passing lanes, smoother curves,
better sightlines, highly-reflective pavement markings and more effective
intersections.
The
Sea-to-Sky upgrade project includes:
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Four lanes from
Horseshoe Bay to Ansell Place.
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Two-, three- and
four-lane sections from north of Lions Bay to Squamish.
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Four lanes through
Squamish.
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Three lanes from
Squamish to Whistler.
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Three lanes between
Culliton and Cheakamus, north of Squamish (completed in late 2004).
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Four lanes from Ansell
Place to Lions Bay, north of Horseshoe Bay (completed in December 2005).
The Sea-to-Sky Highway Improvement Project currently
employs about 500 workers.
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Communications Director Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure 250 387-7787 250 812-5747 (cell) |
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