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By Chris Brown

Two Medicine Hat specific projects

Southern Alberta highway projects to improve safety, create jobs

May 5, 2020 | 12:27 PM

Work on southern Alberta highways will improve safety on the open roads and create 600 jobs, says the province.

Two projects are specific to Medicine Hat – intersection improvements at Highways 1 and 3 and LED lighting retrofit in Medicine Hat.

“Southern Alberta faces the same serious economic challenges as communities across our province, said Transportation Minister Ric McIver, in a release. “These road and bridge projects will provide hundreds of jobs for southern Albertans while maintaining the critical infrastructure that helps get groceries, food and fuel where it needs to be and connects us with our largest trading partner. We are taking action across our province to get Albertans back to work and our economy back on track.”

The projects will include highway and bridge maintenance, and pothole repairs.

These projects are part of the $2 billion that the government announced on April 9.

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The projects that are part of this investment are shovel-ready, so people can get to work as soon as possible. Further projects will be identified over the next few months.

Some of the road and bridge repair projects in southern Alberta include:

• Bridge replacement on Highway 560 near Langdon.
• 19 kilometres of repaving on Highway 1, between Highways 36 and 875.
• 22 kilometres of repaving on Highway 1, between Highway 561 and Highway 901.
• 30 kilometres of repaving on Highway 21, between Highway 1 and Rockyford.
• 17 kilometres of repaving on Highway 22, between Highway 541 and the Town of Black Diamond.
• 12 kilometres of repaving on Highway 550, between Rosemary and Highway 36.
• Roundabout at Highway 566 and Range Road 11.
• Seven kilometres of grade widening on Highway 817 between Highways 24 and 901.
• Bridge deck rehabilitation on the South Saskatchewan River bridge on eastbound Highway 1.

In addition, $60 million is available province-wide to repair potholes and complete critical safety measures.