{"id":15041,"date":"2014-06-14T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T05:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15041"},"modified":"2014-06-14T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T11:23:49","slug":"twinning-of-trans-canada-highway-through-banff-national-park-now-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/14\/twinning-of-trans-canada-highway-through-banff-national-park-now-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Twinning of Trans Canada Highway through Banff National Park now complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/image13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15118\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/image13.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"689\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/image13.jpg 689w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/image13-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANFF, Alberta &#8212; The twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway through Banff National Park is complete and government officials hope the project will cut down on the number of human and animal fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been underway for years and on Friday the final 35-kilometre section from Castle Junction to the B.C. boundary was unveiled.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was originally built in the 1950s as a scenic, low-volume, two-lane highway. Twinning began in 1981 east of the Banff Park Gates.<\/p>\n<p>Now the entire 82 kilometres of the Trans-Canada through the park is twinned and officials say the work will make it safer for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The project includes four new wildlife overpasses and 18 underpasses along the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Richards, Conservative member of Parliament for the Wild Rose riding, says a number of agencies contributed over the years to complete the project at a cost of about $317 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an Albertan, much like anybody else, there is a frustration certainly when there was congestion of traffic but more importantly it&#8217;s about safety,&#8221; he said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be able to complete this is a very significant thing, for the park, for people travelling through the park, for the goods and services that flow through here as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say exclusion fencing on both sides of the highway has already reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by over 80 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANFF, Alberta &#8212; The twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway through Banff National Park is complete and government officials hope the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[5282,5284,5285,5283],"class_list":["post-15041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","tag-banff","tag-trans-canada-highway","tag-transport","tag-twinning","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}