[Gronk!]

Province announces $5 million for Highway 28 improvement study

Alberta’s Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors announced $5 million of government funding to plan improvements to Highway 28. Areas of focus will range from intersection upgrades to the addition of passing lanes. A twinned highway from Bonnyville to Cold Lake may also be in the cards.

www.lakelandtoday.ca

 

[Airboy]

How many studies do we need. I have seen Geotech crews along that highway.

 

[Gronk!]

First Nations to help plan 218-kilometre gravel road connecting Peace Country and Fort McMurray

Three First Nations have signed an agreement to help the provincial government plan a new road across northern Alberta.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

 

[MacLac]

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Forgot where we're keeping our "street sweeping" rants these days. The first picture is literally over 40 years of sand/rock buildup on that stretch. I remember as a kid - must have had ADD or something, driving by and wondering "why doesn't the city sweep private land boulevards?" I've literally seen boulevard sweepers go "around" these sections only to pick up down the road a block or so and resume. Would it kill them to just run the sweeper up and down ALL boulevards? Whether city owned or not?

 

[Gronk!]

First Nations to help plan 218-kilometre gravel road connecting Peace Country and Fort McMurray

Three First Nations have signed an agreement to help the provincial government plan a new road across northern Alberta.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

More info:

Three First Nations, Alberta government to build road from Fort Mac to Grande Prairie region

The Alberta government has agreements with three First Nations to connect Fort McMurray to Peerless Lake with 218-kilometre, gravel highway.

edmontonjournal.com

 

[chrisvazquez7]

That highway is way overdue, but why gravel? That’s a long distance to be driving on washboard… pave it from the get go.

 

[The_Cat]

I'm guessing that the highway could be paved in stages. Gravel or not, there will be a demand for traffic.

 

[MacLac]

More info:

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/lo...d-from-fort-mac-to-grande-prairie-region[/URL

It's a "Make work project." It'll be 10 years over and 10X over budget.....

 

[Airboy]

It is long over do, I had a trip up to Chipewyan Lake, Some members of that reserve were commuting to Ft Mac. This will cut that travel down by a few hours.
And from past travel Highway 88 took a few years to fully pave. I remember gravel from Red Earth Creek to Ft Vermillion.

 

[The_Cat]

I imagine another future highway project in Northern Alberta could be Highway 58 west to the B. C. boundary. This highway could possibly meet up with Fort Nelson.

 

[Avenuer]

I imagine another future highway project in Northern Alberta could be Highway 58 west to the B. C. boundary. This highway could possibly meet up with Fort Nelson.

That would be great for people in Rainbow Lake, as they're basically a dead end right now at the end of the highway.

 

[Airboy]

Hell those would be great tourist routes as well.

I like how 88 became the main route coming out of Yellowknife.

 

[Avenuer]

Hell those would be great tourist routes as well.

I like how 88 became the main route coming out of Yellowknife.

Yup, much more direct than going south on Highway 35 and faster with better pavement and fewer communities to drive through.

 

[MacLac]

That would be great for people in Rainbow Lake, as they're basically a dead end right now at the end of the highway.

Would have been a better idea 20 years ago when Ft. Nelson had almost 200 rigs drilling up along with all of the other O&G activity. But Ft.Nelson is a dead zone now and forever...lol

 

[Avenuer]

Would have been a better idea 20 years ago when Ft. Nelson had almost 200 rigs drilling up along with all of the other O&G activity. But Ft.Nelson is a dead zone now and forever...lol

Yup, was up there last September and it was the opposite of vibrant, but there are no other towns for hundreds of kilometers so it still had the essentials like Save On Foods.