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Canadian Oil Sands companies are asking the government to upgrade the section of Highway 63 north of Fort McMurray, in the province of Alberta, which leads to several oil sands projects.
A spokesman for the Oils Sands Developers Group said the industry might help the province finance expansions to the highway, which has been the centre of attention as more than 1,500 people rallied on Saturday to call for faster investment in a roadway where seven people died in a head-on collision April 27.
In the past five years, 46 people have died on that highway, which goes from north of Edmonton to Fort McMurray and continues up past the sites of the several oil sands mines in the area.
CBC reports the late April accident has triggered movement in the province to have the highway’s lengthy two-lane stretches twinned. It also says mining companies have begun sketching a plan to use industry dollars to upgrade the road.
2 Comments
Amh
The highway isn’t the issue. It is the speeding drivers. Perhaps the initiatives should focus on how to improve and enforce safe driving behaviours. Think outside the box. Make it a toll highway, expensive toll, to encourage use of mass transit. Don’t just make it a toll though, add in a fine for those who pass checkpoints too fast (i.e., give drivers an entry ticket when they pay the toll and have a check out point where drivers need to scan the ticket and issue huge speefing fines to anyone wno had to be speeding to make it between checkpoints in the logged time. Twinning the highway is not going to solve the problem. In fact, it encourages speeding.
LauraQ
do you have inside knowledge that this is a case of people speeding. Where did you get your information.