Kelowna MLA wants province to speed up transportation plans on Highway 97
On Feb. 27, Kelowna RCMP closed the highway running straight through the fastest growing region of Canada for about eight hours starting in the noon hour after discovering and later defusing what turned out to be a genuine explosive device.
“When you talk to people who come to visit Kelowna from Prince George or from Island or Vancouver, you hear all sorts of positive things about the Okanagan — ‘beautiful, great wine, nice people,’ but then you hear, ‘but, your traffic sucks.’” The new strategy recognizes this status, but Letnick not only laments its delayed time-line, but also the possibility that it won’t come with the necessary funds.“It’s very clear to those of us in the Okanagan, that the government is spending a lot of money in other parts of the province and not spending a lot of money in our part of the province,” Letnick said.
“The ministry continues to work closely with local governments, Indigenous communities, and the Regional District of the Central Okanagan to develop the Central Okanagan Integrated Transportation Strategy,” it reads.
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