A $17-million project to four-lane Highway 97 south of Taylor is scheduled to get underway next month, as part of B.C. on the Move, the Government of B.C.’s 10-year transportation plan.

The 61-year-old Salmon River Bridge, on Highway 97 north of Prince George, will be replaced with a new structure that can handle oversize transport trucks, as part of B.C. on the Move, the Government of B.C.’s 10-year transportation plan.

As part of B.C. on the Move, the Province’s new 10-year transportation plan, the ministry is investing $24 million over the next three years in the new B.C. Air Access Program to support B.C. airports.

The B.C. government is continuing to protect old-growth forests and enhance biodiversity by establishing 79 old growth management areas under the Oil and Gas Activities Act.

The provincial government has made a commitment to resurface approximately 28 kilometres of highways and roads in the Ashcroft and Cache Creek area in 2015.

New mobile radio channels for forestry workers and other resource road users will take effect beginning Aug. 23, 2014, on Vancouver Island and parts of the South Coast.