PROJECT DETAIL – PHASE 4 |
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Highway 95 Intersection and West Portal to Yoho Bridge
Estimated cost: $630.5 million (funding still required)
A longer term project that involves upgrading the Highway 95 intersection, and a significant realignment of more than four kilometers of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Kicking Horse Canyon to improve traffic operations, safety and reduce rock fall hazards.
The Province anticipates developing a future cost-sharing arrangement with the federal government towards detailed design and construction of the remainder of the project.
Highway 95 Intersection
- Connect Golden Hill to West Portal improvements to existing 4-lane TCH.
- Traffic operations improvements
- Address cycling/pedestrian access
- Intersection options studies, preliminary design, environmental and geotechnical studies have been carried out
West Portal to Yoho Bridge
- Upgrading more than four kilometers through the most challenging section of the canyon
- Alternative alignment studies, preliminary design, environmental and geotechnical studies have been completed
- Four lane widening, alignment improvements and elimination of rock fall hazards can be achieved using a combination of short tunnels, bridges and rock fall sheds
- Design is proceeding on a route requiring side-by-side 340-metre and 210-metre tunnels, approximately 6 hazard protection sheds and up to 12 bridges
- Such a route can be built and made operational in stages, like the rest of the project
- See the March 4, 2010 Design Update – West Portal to Yoho Bridge
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