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By Chris Brown

Four areas targeted

Highway 3 twinning group announces new priority areas

Oct 14, 2020 | 11:53 AM

The section of highway from Medicine Hat to Seven Persons is one of four priority areas for the group that has been pushing for more than 20 years to see the entire highway twinned.

The Highway 3 Twinning Development Association wants the provincial government to fund any one or more of the following:

• Medicine Hat to Seven Persons, including Airport runway realignment (26kms)
• Pincher Station to Bellevue (36kms)
• Piikani Nation Functional Planning Study
• Fort MacLeod Stage 1A (Shovel Ready)

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“GDP growth projections for Southern Alberta show a significant increase due to new and expanding industries, such as the Grassy Mountain Coal Project, Windy Point, Forty Mile, Rattlesnake Ridge & Peace Butte Wind Power Projects,” says a release from the group. “Highway 3 is a CRITICAL pipeline for moving an increasing number of commodities to processors and the conduit for transporting the final products to market. As such, the twinning of Highway 3 will champion jobs and support the expanding economy of Southern Alberta, and the province, at a critical time in our province’s history.”

The provincial government announced this summer that the section from Burdett to Taber will be twinned as part of its stimulus spending package.

A petition for the twinning was launched in March by the Highway 3 Twinning Development Association.