A twinning of the busy corridor has been discussed for 50 years and it now appears to be a reality with final approvals granted and a two-year engineering study underway
. Part of the superhighway would include a community access road directly through the rockslide connecting the tiny mining towns of Bellevue, Frank and Blairmore.
“When people say if we dig up the highway right here that there won’t be any people under, nobody can say that. Nobody.” “It’s time, they say, to dig up the Frank Slide’s dead, time to spend hundreds of millions to transform the Crowsnest River valley into a high-speed off-ramp into British Columbia.”
Painter said the addition of traffic lights on the current highway has improved safety for pass residents. He said there are also worries the expanded highway may cut small communities off from potential tourism or business traffic.
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