In Canada the British Colombia Government has announced a programme of road and highway upgrades worth a total of US$1.99 billion (C$2.5 billion). The investment will be used to rehabilitate side roads, highways and bridges across the province. This plan will include repaving some 1,000km/year of provincial highway, with this plan stretching out over a period of 10 years. A key portion of the work will be to widen Highway 1 section to six lanes between Abbotsford and Langley. The proposed plan has been titled BC On the Move. This comprehensive plan is intended to improve transportation as a whole, including providing better links for heavy vehicles, ferries and airport connections. Projects include upgrading Mount Lehman Road in Abbotsford, constructing highway interchanges, constructing a new George Massey Bridge and replacing half the fleet of BC Transit bus. The plan also calls for improvements to pedestrian and cycling routes on Stanley Park causeway.
Under the plan, $796.54 million (C$1 billion) would be spent on expanding key BC highways and over $637 million (C$800 million) on existing infrastructure in the coming three years.
The work is needed as many existing links are no longer suitable for the traffic volumes and the number of heavy vehicles they have to handle. Some road links are also in a poor state of repair and require maintenance and repairs, as well as being improved to boost capacity.
Under the plan, $796.54 million (C$1 billion) would be spent on expanding key BC highways and over $637 million (C$800 million) on existing infrastructure in the coming three years.
The work is needed as many existing links are no longer suitable for the traffic volumes and the number of heavy vehicles they have to handle. Some road links are also in a poor state of repair and require maintenance and repairs, as well as being improved to boost capacity.
