Another $2.5 billion will be funnelled into transportation in the province of B.C. thanks to an announcement today by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.
The 10-year plan, called B.C. on the Move, focuses on developments and improvements for highways, roads and safety.
Of the $2.5 billion, $800 million will be spent in the next three years improving existing infrastructure and $1 billion toward expanding the network of highways.
Highlights from the plan’s priorities are listed in sequence below:
- Rehabilitating highways, bridges and side roads
- $380 million to resurface provincial highways
- $180 million to repair and replace provincial bridges
- $270 to improve the condition of provincial side roads
- Improving highway safety
- $75 million for a Road Safety Improvement Program
- $30 million for intersection safety improvements
- Improving highway capacity and reliability
- $1 billion to ensuring network of highways has the capacity and reliability to meet transport and trade needs, with maximum safety and minimal delays and uncertainties
- Including advance development of the George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project
- Initiate design for future construction of six-laning on Highway 1 from Langley to Abbotsford
- Plan and deliver highway interchange and overpass projects throughout the Lower Mainland
- Construct highway widening, capacity, safety and operational improvements on provincial highways throughout the Lower Mainland
- Delivering a provincial trucking strategy
- Investing in transit
- $312 million for BC Transit operating out side of Metro Vancouver
- Fund one-third of the cost of new rapid transit projects, and the Patullo Bridge, provided they can be accommodated within the provincial fiscal plan and the investments are supported by a business case
- Work with the region to secure federal funding for rapid transit
- Investing in cycling
- $18 million to build new bike lanes and trails throughout B.C.
- Investing in airports
- $24 million to the B.C. Air Access Program
- Enabling efficient ports and rail
- Sustaining and renewing ferries
- pursue strategies to achieve the vision of an affordable, sustainable and efficient coastal ferry service
- Building partnerships with First Nations
- Improving accessibility
- Partner with TransLink to make additional accessibility upgrades to SkyTrain stations, including adding new and improved elevators and escalators, and removing any barriers to movement
- Protecting the environment
- $6 million to conserve habitat and improve fish and wildlife protection
- $3.9 million to deliver invasive plant management programs
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