Province tabs $19.6M for Highway 3 improvements
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A stretch of southern Manitoba highway connecting Crystal City and Pilot Mound will be rebuilt to remove weight limits by fall 2023.
Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Doyle Piwniuk said Monday the provincial government will spend $19.6 million to resurface and improve about five kilometres of Provincial Trunk Highway 3.
Piwniuk said the improvements will allow vehicles transporting grain and other agricultural products to access the road without restriction. The entirety of Highway 3 will be free of weight limits at the completion of the project and up to standards specified by the Roads and Transportation Association of Canada, he said.
“It’s important that we have a network of criss-crossing highways, and RTAC highways, to transport this vital grain to market,” Piwniuk said. “We also have a number of processing centres now in Neepawa, Carberry and Portage, and we want to make sure that all farmers have the abilities to transport, no matter what direction they’re going, to deliver their commodities.”
Construction will include grade widening, intersection improvements, culvert replacements and the resurfacing with multi-layered pavement, according to the province. Partially paved shoulders and fully paved shoulders will also be added on highway curvatures.
Work is scheduled to begin in the spring, with aggregate production, culverts and grade widening completed in the fall. Surfacing will begin in spring 2023 and completed by fall 2023.
The contract for the job was awarded to Toronto-based Coco Paving Inc.