Highway 63 recommendations tabled
Posted Jun 29, 2012 11:35 am.
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A number of proposals aimed at reducing the carnage on Highway 63 in northern Alberta have been introduced.
Over the past six weeks, thousands of people in the province put forward a number of ideas aimed at not only saving lives but improving the traffic flow on the only major road in and out of the oilsands.
The report suggests improvement in three areas: infrastructure, enforcement and education.
Back in April seven people were killed in a head-on crash, which produced a public outcry for action.
Transportation Minister Ric McIver says he supports almost all of the ideas, but he says he will not recommend photo radar or any kind of tolls.
McIver says right now the timetable to complete the twinning of highway is 10 to 11 years, but he’s confident they can shave a third of that.
He says while the goverment would love some cash from oilsands operators, he understands their reluctance to participate, because of all the money they already give the goverment in the form of taxation and royalties.
Premier Redford will be briefed on the recommendations when she returns from a trade junket to China.
