Highway 5 is a crucial road coming into Dauphin, holding a lot of business and thoroughfare into the city.
A sizeable construction initiative looks to double the traffic capacity and increase the safety of this increasingly busy street.
Aside from twinning the highway, this construction project will add some traffic lights allowing pedestrians to cross safely, which is very much lacking at this point.
Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Doyle Piwniuk is looking forward to seeing how this construction can help grow the city.
"There's a lot of people wanting to come into the city of Dauphin, right? So we want to make sure there's lots of growth in the city of Dauphin on the south side and of course, we want to make it safer with the large volume of traffic. so that's the goal. it's about safety, but also economic development."
There will also be a large effort put in by the city, as an overhaul of the drainage systems next to the roadways will also be required.
Approximately 140,000 cubic meters of soil will be excavated. In its place will be 2 large retention ponds and 885 meters of new storm sewers.
A large portion of this soil will be put to good use, as 30,000 cubic meters of soil will be used in the construction of the hill at Maamawi Park.
Overall, this project is expected to take approximately a year.
Construction of the service roads to keep the traffic flowing will start this fall, and the twinning of the high way is set to begin next spring as soon as things thaw out.
