August 5, 2019 ~ LANGFORD
~ West Shore Voice News
Two kilometres of Highway 1 between Leigh Road and West Shore Parkway will be widened to four lanes as part of a $14 million project to improve safety and efficiency at that gateway to the Malahat.
There will be intersection improvements, installation of about 1.3 km of new median barrier, asphalt overlay of the highway, improvements to lane markings and delineation and related mobilization. Specs for the contractor include quality management, traffic management, environmental management, clearing, grubbing and stripping, earth excavations, peat excavation, drainage infrastructure, paving, and concrete barrier installation.
The project will receive funding from the federal government under the Canada-BC New Building Canada Fund.
The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) expects work to begin this fall, but now that the tender is closed (July 30, 2019) more timeline specifics will soon be known.
In the short term — following two fatal accidents in that stretch of highway in January (January 8 crash) and February 2019 (February 3 crash) — MOTI installed 250 reflective ‘picket’ delineators in early March along the 1.25 km stretch where four-laning will now be built.
And in May, delineators were also installed from about 300 m north of Finlayson Arm Road to about 300 metres south of the Goldstream River Bridge.
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This article was first published on page 3 in the August 2, 2019 Weekend Edition of West Shore Voice News