Modern and efficient roadways are crucial to encouraging and supporting economic activity, facilitating trade, and creating good paying, middle-class jobs.

The Province is committing $749,872 to help unemployed people find forestry jobs through a paid training opportunity with Okanagan College.

Work is now finished on improvements to 29 kilometres of Squilax-Anglemont Road from Shuswap Lake Provincial Park to St. Ives Road.

Seven hundred thousand dollars in improvements to local area side roads in Turtle Valley near Squilax Anglemont Road are now complete.

A contract has been awarded to a local company for a resurfacing project near Shuswap Lake Provincial Park.

Improvements to sections of two roads east of Chase using hot-in-place recycle paving are now complete, improving the driving conditions for travellers and tourists accessing Scotch Creek Park and the Trans-Canada Highway.

Grading and gravelling is on the way for the Turtle Valley area west of Chase, bringing much needed improvements to the side roads in this area.

The public is invited to attend a drop-in information session on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, regarding the four-laning projects planned for the Trans-Canada Highway from Hoffman’s Bluff to Chase.

A $3.34-million contract has been awarded to Green Roads Recycling of Fernie to resurface two sections of highway east of Chase. This work will use innovative made-in-B.C. hot-in-place paving technology that produces 50% fewer greenhouse gas emissions as it reuses and recycles existing pavement material.