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Your B.C. Government

Transportation Infrastructure

The safe, reliable and efficient movement of goods and people is critical to the provincial economy. Your B.C. Government is making record investments in transportation and building the infrastructure needed to strengthen our province's role as Canada's Pacific Gateway.

What your B.C. Government is doing for Transportation Infrastructure:

  • Invested $3.98 billion in capital improvements since 2001, and will be investing another $3.3 billion in transportation improvements over the next three years.
  • Paved 25,000 lane kilometres of highway since 2001. That's equal to the distance from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia – and back again.
  • Launched the $600-million Sea-to-Sky Hwy Improvement project, increasing this road's safety, reliability and capacity. The project is on time for fall 2009, and on budget.
  • Launched construction of the $1.9 billion Canada Line ($435 million provincial contribution). This, rapid transit service will connect Vancouver with Richmond and Vancouver Airport – linking growing residential, business, health care and educational centres and adding transit capacity equivalent to 10 major road lanes. Expected completion fall 2009.
  • Launched the Gateway Program, comprising:
    • Port Mann/Hwy 1: Adding HOV lanes and transit lanes, providing bus service across the Port Mann and future rapid transit, with cycling improvements.
    • South Fraser Perimeter Road: removing trucks from Hwy 17, restoring municipal roads, community connectors and reducing travel times.
    • Pitt River Bridge: constructing a new bridge to eliminate bottlenecks that have seen daily volume grow from 27,000 to 88,000 between 1985 and 2007.
  • Launched the $200-million first phase of the Cariboo Connector, initiated as part of a long-term plan to four-lane Hwy 97 between Prince George and Cache Creek. This will better connect the Southern Interior with Prince George and the North.
  • Completed the $144.5-million William R. Bennett Bridge, crossing Okanagan Lake. This was the most congested stretch of highway outside the Lower Mainland. Completed 108 days ahead of schedule and on budget.
  • Completed the first two phases of the $972-million Kicking Horse Canyon Project, which will upgrade 26 km of the Trans-Canada Highway from the junction of Highway 95 in Golden to the western boundary of Yoho National Park, to move goods and people more safely and efficiently.
  • Completed construction of the $290-million Border Infrastructure Program ($210 million provincial contribution), improving key sections of the region's road network for better links between border crossings, ports, container facilities, industrial parks, airports and railways.
  • The Province permanently removed the tolls on the Coquihalla Highway on September 26, 2008, saving travellers time and money. A passenger vehicle making a round trip twice a month will save $480 a year, and a commercial truck making a round trip once a week will save $4,800 a year.
  • Launched a $14-billion Provincial Transit Plan that will reduce provincial transportation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 4.7 million tonnes cumulatively by 2020. The plan includes new RapidBus service over the Port Mann - the first bus service crossing the bridge in over 20 years.
  • Your B.C. Government is providing $176 million in annual subsidies for coastal ferry services from BC Ferries, which is continuing to revitalize its fleet with new ships, such as the Super-C class vessels that are now sailing between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
  • Invested $118 million in cycling infrastructure since 2001. Part of this investment is $50-million in cycling infrastructure as part of the Gateway Program - the largest cycling investment in B.C.'s history. This investment has created over 200 kilometres of new bicycles lanes and trails throughout the province in over 50 different communities. That's more than the distance between Vancouver and Hope.
  • Bike BC, a $31-million program, will improve cycling infrastructure in communities across the province.  This will enhance cycling as an option for people to commute, run errands or spend their leisure time.
  • Invested $34 million to improve 33 airports across the province, through the Transportation Partnerships Program. Completed improvements include airports in Prince George, Kamloops, Cranbrook, Fort Nelson, Langley, Valemount, Terrace/Kitimat, Campbell River, Courtenay/Comox, Castlegar, Kelowna, Smithers, Princeton and Merritt.

For More Information:
B.C. Transportation Projects
Transportation Projects in Northern B.C.
Transportation Projects in the Southern Interior
Transportation Projects in the South Coast