Highway 3 projects loom large in provincial highways planning [Video]

With or without federal support, improvements to a major southern Alberta highway continue because of its critical economic importance as an east-west corridor, the province says.

Eight Highway 3 projects are on the books after being separated into “bite-sized chunks” to keep costs in check, said Devin Dreeshen, minister of transportation and economic corridors.

Dreeshen pointed to Highway 3’s importance in connecting the province to B.C. and Saskatchewan through an area of irrigation, agriculture and oil and gas.

“It’s such a breadbasket of Alberta,” said the member for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake.

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The National Trade Corridors Fund has so far failed to put money towards a list from the Alberta government of projects in southern, central and northern Alberta. All proposal calls are closed.

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