While summer traffic may have Highway 1 ground to a halt every afternoon for the next two months, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is offering a sneak peak of what (hopefully) will be open roads ahead.
The ministry has released series of 3D “flyover” animated videos showing how the various components of the highway will look once $200 million in upgrades at the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows bridgehead are completed between now and 2021.
The videos put the viewer in the driver’s seat entering and exiting the highway from Mountain Highway, Mount Seymour Parkway, Keith Road and the Cut conspicuously free of traffic.
The videos also offer the first look of the new express and collector lanes and two new bridges over Lynn Creek. The videos don’t depict the new on-ramp for Main Street/Dollarton Highway, which will eventually be merged into one lane and controlled with a signalling system.
Cost for the $200-million project is being shared by the province ($76.7 million) and federal government ($66.6 million), as well as District of North Vancouver taxpayers, who are contributing $54.7 million.
See all six videos below:
