Highway 3 twinning one of few local mentions in Alberta budget
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MEDICINE HAT, AB – The province’s 2023 Budget is scarce on mentions for Medicine Hat or other communities in southeastern Alberta.
The capital plan includes $75 million over three years for engineering or planning on projects that are addressing future growth, such as twinning Highway 3 from Medicine Hat to the British Columbia border.
The twinning of the section from Taber to Burdett was announced last fall and the government plans to start construction on that portion this spring. The budget has that work as a $31 million expenditure this year, with an additional $63 million in the next forecasts for the next two years.
The Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede’s proposed grandstand development and expansion is also a line item in the budget. Funding of $1 million is noted for last year’s budget, with nothing earmarked for 2023-24 or the next two budget years.
