The Trans-Canada Highway southbound and northbound between Tillicum Road and Admirals/McKenzie Avenue will be closed overnight Friday for construction.
The closure will start on Oct. 2 from 11 p.m. until the following morning on Oct. 3 at 5 a.m. Construction crews will be installing an overhead guide sign at that time.
Detour signs will direct traffic through an alternate route using Admirals Road, Gorge Road West and Tillicum Road. Highway 1 southbound traffic turning onto McKenzie Avenue via the loop ramp will not be affected.
Drivers are reminded to obey construction-zone speed limits and the direction of traffic control personnel.
The McKenzie Interchange project, a new interchange on the Trans-Canada Highway at the Admirals Road and McKenzie Avenue intersection, is considered “substantially complete” as of summer 2020.
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The original cost of the project was $85 million, but in 2019, the provincial government confirmed the cost was $11 million over budget at $96 million.
The federal government contributed over $32.6 million under the New Building Canada Fund’s Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component- National and Regional Projects and the Government of British Columbia funded the remaining $63.35 million.
The interchange was originally supposed to be finished in 2018 after work started in September 2016. The completion date was then pushed to the end of 2019 and then in April, the timeline was changed again for the project to end in summer 2020.
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