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The Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick

The completion of the four-lane Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick is the top infrastructure priority for the Department of Transportation.

New Brunswick government is getting closer to its objective of completing the four-lane Trans-Canada Highway. At present, 383 kilometres of four-lane highway are open to traffic, including 65 kilometres opened in fall 2003. The Province expects to open another 30 kilometres between Pokiok and Longs Creek by 2006. The remaining 100 kilometres between Grand Falls to Woodstock will open in fall 2007.

When completed, the Trans-Canada Highway will be 516 kilometres long and it will take four hours and 42 minutes to drive from the Quebec border to the Nova Scotia border.

News releases:

• Brun-Way Group to complete twinning of Trans-Canada Highway - February 7, 2005
• Completion of highway improvements in Fredericton - December 20, 2004
• Brun-Way Group Joint Venture preferred proponent to complete Trans-Canada Highway - December 8, 2004
• Completion of highway improvements on TCH in Edmundston - November 12, 2004
• Receipt of financial submissions for completion of Trans-Canada Highway - November 1, 2004
• Receipt of technical submissions for completion of Trans-Canada Highway - August 17, 2004
• New Grand Falls ramps added to Trans-Canada Highway project - July 13, 2004
• Two consortia remain in the running for completion of TCH - June 2, 2004
• Request for proposals issued for completion of Trans-Canada Highway - April 21, 2004
• Four consortia preparing bids to complete Trans-Canada Highway - March 26, 2004
• Four consortia respond to TCH request for qualifications - February 11, 2004
• Official opening of two highway projects in northwestern New Brunswick - December 9, 2003
• Ministers announce plans to complete four-lane Trans-Canada Highway - November 13, 2003
• Highway twinning project completed in New Brunswick - October 14, 2003
• Federal, provincial governments provide $400 million for twinning of TCH in New Brunswick - May 1, 2003
• Funding of $29.2 million for N.B. highway improvements - September 13, 2002
• Governments contribute $10 million to highway improvement project - August 28, 2002
• Governments to complete twinning of Trans-Canada Highway - August 14, 2002

The Benefits of Four-Lane Highways

The economic benefits of four-lane highways are clear. In 1998, $1.8 billion of the total $3.3 billion in exports from Atlantic Canada traveled by truck on New Brunswick highways to key trading partners. Truck traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway between Fredericton and Woodstock has increased 50 per cent between 1991 and 1999. Comparative figures between Woodstock and Edmundston indicate a 47 per cent increase in truck traffic.

For every $1 million spent on highway construction, 10.6 equivalent full-time direct jobs are created. For every job directly created, another job is created, and more than $500,000 of additional spending is generated in the industries that support construction activity as a result of the jobs that are created.

Four-lane highways have also been proven to reduce accidents. An independent study of major arteries upgraded from two lanes to four lanes found that fatal accidents were reduced by three times after twinning.

Executive Summary of the RFP for the Trans-Canada Highway Project