The Highway 3 Twinning Development Association has been advocating for the twinning of the major southern Alberta route for the last 20 years and now shovels are slated to hit the ground on another section of road in the spring.
“Today’s announcement was, really, a clearer announcement of what the government wants to do and to ensure the whole project from Medicine Hat to the Crowsnest Pass is fully done,” said Bill Chapman, president of the Highway 3 Twinning Development Association.
“There’s lots of functional planning studies to go, there’s a lot of land that needs to be bought and we need to make sure that everyone in the area, whether if it’s Bow Island or the Piikani Nation that their involved in the planning process,” said Devin Dreeshen, Alberta’s minister of transportation and economic corridors.
The twinning of the 215 kilometres won’t just improve safety along the highway, but will also impact the local economy, according to Trevor Lewington with Economic Development Lethbridge. “They expect hundreds of millions of dollars of impacts to communities along the highway, so I think that’s pretty exciting, the sooner we can get this project in the ground and going, the sooner we’ll start to realize the savings and some of that productivity,” Lewington added.
Phase 2: 10 kilometres – Highway 3X/Coleman Bypass. Functional planning studies have been completed and detailed engineering design will begin in spring 2023; Phase 5: 28 kilometres – East of Bow Island to east of Seven Persons. Functional planning studies have been completed and detailed engineering design will begin in summer 2023;
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