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Vermilion River Bridge Construction Project set to Begin Michelle Pinon News Advertiser Vermilion River bridge construction along Highway 16 A in Vegreville is set to begin on March 26, and is expected to end on October 15. McKenzie Kibler, Press Secretary for Transportation Minister Ric McIver, stated, “As part of our ongoing commitment to Rural Albertans and Vegreville residents, Alberta’s government is spending $3.5 million to replace the Highway 16A over the Vermilion River. This will help improve safety and reduce future maintenance cost, while creating about 18 jobs to help get Albertans back to work. The historic 2021-2024 capital plan commits $20.7 billion over the next three years to create 90,000 jobs as a part of Alberta’s Economic Recovery Plan. That includes billions for capital maintenance and renewal projects like the Vermillion River Bridge, which we expect to be underway in the coming weeks and completed by this fall. • The work includes building a new 32m long bridge that will carry four lanes of traffic. Work will include some minor modifications to modernize the intersection with 43 street by removing some of the concrete median. These modifications will also reduce future bridge maintenance costs and improve drainage of the roadway and bridge surface. • Two way traffic will be accommodated during construction. The project will be built in stages by demolishing the half of the old bridge while the other half carries traffic, then building half of the new bridge, then moving traffic to the new bridge while the second half of the new bridge is built. • No additional traffic lights are needed as a single lane of traffic in each direction
coronapocalypse - CONTINUED from PAGE 6 country begged the federal government for help in developing vaccines, only to get the run-around. And you wonder why we don’t have a homegrown industry? Winners: Infectious disease doctors. A year ago, we didn’t even know such doctors existed. Now, they’re rock stars. Losers: Podiatrists. Nothing to do with COVID, I just can’t imagine a worse way to spend your life than staring at feet all day. Winners: Companies that make needles and syringes. Losers: People who are squeamish about needles. You can’t watch TV news without seeing some flabby old person’s arm getting pierced. They always look like a water-filled balloon. Ugh. Winner: Justin Trudeau. Despite a chronicle of COVID incompetence – our vaccination rate is among the worst in the developed world; his madcap spending
spree was the highest in the world – Trudeau’s personal popularity remains at about 50 per cent, according to an Angus Reid poll. I guess if you have an unlimited bank account and all the TV exposure you want, you can buy your way to popularity. Loser: The Canadian taxpayer. As usual. Maurice Tougas is a retired Alberta editor and journalist, formerly with the Red Deer Advocate, the Edmonton Examiner, Edmonton and Calgary Prime Times and many others. He was twice named best columnist in Canada by the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and was a finalist for the Golden Quill award from the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors. He served one term as a Liberal MLA in the Alberta Legislature.
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