B.C.’s Transportation Minister says she expects an expansion project on Highway 1 through Chase will start this year.
A request for proposal to do the project was supposed to go out last summer but that hasn’t happened yet.
While speaking to NL News on Thursday, Claire Trevena was hesitant to put a new date on when the bid for a contractor will go out, but does expect work to start this year.
“I know that there’s a frustration, and I feel it myself sometimes. We saw about accelerating. If we accelerate, we want to get it right. We don’t want to have to go back and pick up pieces that have gone wrong on any stage. Still very committed to this project, and hopefully people will see movement there very soon,” Trevena says.
“We are continually working with communities, working with Indigenous communities, to get it right. We don’t want to start something and then, for whatever reason, not be able to make progress on it. Yes, we are absolutely committed to this. This is part of my mandate.”
The project to widen about 12 kilometres of the highway, from Hoffman’s Bluff to Jade Mountain, is currently expected to cost $199.2 million. It was first announced in 2017.
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