Highway 1 - Pritchard to Hoffman's Bluff
The Pritchard to Hoffman's Bluff project involved the widening of 5.8 km of highway and other improvements, approximately 10 km west of Chase.
Improvements included:
- Widening of 5.8 km of highway
- Paved centre median
- 2.6-metre-wide median with barrier
- 3-metre-wide paved shoulders
- Rumble strips
- Improved access to highway with 1.15 km of new backage roads
- New protected T-intersection at Stoney Flats
- Road consolidates two intersections and five private access roads
Status:
- Phase 1, four-laning a 2.8-km section – completed July 2015
- Phase 2 construction started in 2015 and the new 4-lane section opened to traffic in December 2016.
Project Benefits
- Increase safety on a section that has a higher-than-average crash rate
- Improve highway alignment
- Increase passing opportunities
- Improve traffic flows
- Cost shared with federal government
