Wednesday June 21, 2023 | VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC [Updated June 23, 2023]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Highway 4 was reopened on June 23, 2023.
Three day-use parks will be closed to the public until Highway 4 fully reopens:
- MacMillan Provincial Park (Cathedral Grove)
- day-use picnic areas of Cameron Lake and Beaufort in Little Qualicum Falls
Those will be temporarily closed to help reduce traffic congestion and keep traffic through the corridor flowing smoothly.
Highway has been closed for safety reasons as a result of the wildfire in the Cameron Lake area.
The temporary closures will assist the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) in its efforts to reopen Highway 4 to single-lane-alternating traffic.
The re-opening on the weekend of June 24 and 25 is still the present timeline. That depends on the progress of shoring up the slopes from debris that might otherwise fall onto the highway.
Once the highway has fully reopened, BC Parks looks forward to welcoming back visitors.
Signage & fencing:
Signs will be posted about these closures.
Barrier fencing will be in place at MacMillan Provincial Park.
Parking areas will be reserved for use by ministry staff only. Ministry staff will be on site to guide traffic.
===== ABOUT ISLAND SOCIAL TRENDS & the EDITOR:
Island Social Trends has been covering politics, business, education and communities through a socioeconomic lens since 2008 on south Vancouver Island (previously as West Shore Voice News, and before that both Sooke Voice News and MapleLine Magazine).
Island Social Trends posts news daily at islandsocialtrends.ca (2020-2023). A new bi-weekly print edition will launch in mid-July 2023, with the online news portal continuing robustly.
Mary P Brooke is the editor and publisher of Island Social Trends. Ms Brooke followed and wrote extensively about the COVID pandemic during 2020-2022, and continues to follow that topic as new developments arise. She has covered news of Sooke School District 62 (SD62) in-depth since 2014 and BC education more broadly for over 10 years; in 2022 she ran as a trustee candidate in SD62. In the west shore she also reports on West Shore Parks and Recreation. Mary Brooke is building a FOOD RESILIENCE NEWS ARCHIVE.
Ms Brooke now reports with the BC Legislative Press Gallery. Mary Brooke was awarded the McGeachy Prize in Journalism (University of Saskatchewan, 1981) and in 2023 year has been nominated for the Jack Webster Foundation Shelley Fralic Award honouring women whose work in journalism serves their community.
Among other qualifications, Ms Brooke holds a health sciences B.Sc. (Foods & Nutrition), a university Certificate in Public Relations, and an industry certificate in digital marketing.
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