Torievuocatioa -Stead* DEPT. OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE ROOM 254 . . . PHONE 907 473 PROVINCE OF LEGISLATIVE BUILDING

WINNIPEG - MANITOBA Release Date MJI4J7..4954 O

RECORD ROAD CONSTRUCTION PLANNED FOR 1954 SEASON

A record-breaking total of 518,131,390 will be spent on Manitoba

roads and highways in 1954, it was announced in the Legislature by Hon. W. Morton, Minister of Public Works.

The summer program calls for at least 180 miles of new pavement

and more than 1,000 miles of grading, gravelling, and other work on roads

throughout the province. For the second year in succession, all expenditures for highway

construction will come from current revenues. Here are the sources: Voted by the Manitoba Legislature, $14,631,390; carry-over from the 1953

construction program, 11,000,000; payable by the Federal Government as

its share of Trans-Canada Highway construction in Manitoba, 12,500,000.

Details of the road building program follow; (See pages attached. - more -

PROVINCE OF MANITOBA

PROPOSED HIGHWAY PROGRAMME

1954 - 1955 Location Mile ape Nature of Work P.T.E. No. 1 East Vest Kildonan - Parkdale 7.4 Stabilize and Prime Shoulders Lockport - Ontario Boundary 15.0 Seal Coat, Miscellaneous Sections P.T.H. No. 2 Oak Bluff - Elt Creek 32.5 Bituminous Mat Rathwell P.T.H. No, 10 Reprime treatment where necessary West of Rathwell 1,0 Regrade, Stabilize and Prime New Entrance, Wawanesa 1,0 Double Prime Treatment Log Cabin - Souris 13.0 Bituminous Mat Souris - Junction P.T.H. #21 9.0 Seal Coat Pipe stone - Sask. Boundary 18.0 Reprine Treatment P.T.H. No. 3 Sanford - Brunkild 9.0 Grade, Structures and Gravel Carman - Jordan 10,0 Grade, Structures and Gravel Morden - Winkler 6.3 Bituminous Mat Morden LaRiviere 31.6 Seal Coat LaRiviere - Killarney - Reprime-where necessary Ninga Corner - P.T.H. #10 8.5 Grading and Structures Town of Deloraine 1.0 Bitnminous Mat Deloraine - Melita 26..5 Second Prime Treatment P.T.H. No. 4 P.T.H. #10 - Newdale 14.8 . Bituminous Mat Newdale - Ipswich 13.5 Regravelling Ipswich - West 15.0 Grading and Structures Town of Shoal Lake 0.5 Bituminous Mat Binscarth - Foxwarren 9.0 Grading, Structures and Gravelling Binscarth - Russell 10.0 Completion, Grading and Gravelling P.T.H. No. 4A. P.T.H. No. 4 - East 1.0 Grading, Structures and Gravelling P.T.H. No. 5 Neepawa - Eden 11.3 Stabilized Base and Bituminous Mat Eden - Riding Mountain 7.8 Gravelling Riding Mountain - North 4.0 Grading and Structures. Junction #10 - Grandview 18.0 Prime Treatment Grandview - Shortdale Corner 13.7 Completion Grading and Gravelling Shortdale Cor. - 5 miles East of Roblin 10.6 Grading, Structures and Gravelling P.T.H. No. 6 Rosser Road 4 Miles South of Woodlands 24.0 Bituminous Mat 4 Miles South of Woodlands - St. Laurent 24,0 Seal Coat St. Laurent Oak Point 13.0 Prime Treatment

- more - Location Mileage Nature of Work P.T.H. No. 7 Junction P.T.H. #6 - Stoney Mountain 6.0 Bituminous Mat. Stoney Mountain - Teulon Stabilized Base and repriming where necessary Teulon - Komarno 7.0 Prime Treatment Komarno - S. of Fraserwood 8.1 Completion Of Grading and Gravelling S. of Fraserwood - Narcisse 18.0 Grading, Gravelling P.T.H. No. 8 Junct. P.T.H. #8A - Clandeboye Rd. 13.4 Drainage, Structures Wbytewold Road - Gimli 14.0 Prime Treatment P.T.H. No. 9 Clandeboye - Netley 10.0 Seal Coat

P.T.H. • No. 10 Brandon - Junct. P.T.H. #2 17.0 Seal Coat Brandon Minnedosa 32.0 Seal Coat Minnedosa - Cameron School 6.0 Bituminous Mat Dauphin - National Park 8.0 Seal Coat South of Pine River - Cowan 27.0 Bituminous Mat Cowan - Lenswood Corner 14.0 Complete Grading and Gravelling Lenswood Cor. - East of Swan River 9.0 Prime Treatment Swan River - East 5.0 Seal Coat Swan River Bowsman 11.5 Prime Treatment Woody River Bridge Completion and Approaches Bowaman - Birch River 12.0 Drainage Town elle Pas 2.0 Bituminous Mat The Pas - Prospector 11.5 Grading and Gravelling Flin Flon - East 3.7 Bituminous Nat P.T.H. No. 11 Trans-Canada P.T.H. #1 East 20.0 Completion of Grade and Gravelling Seigts Cor. Lac du Bonnet 11.5 Completion Grading, Structures and Gravelling. P.T.H. No. 12 Steinbach - Trans-Canada 13.5 Bituminous Mat Sundown Cor. - Piney 24.6 Completion Grading and Gravelling Piney - South Junction 10.0 Grading and Structures P.T.H. No. 14 P.T.H. #75 - Rosenfeld 9.5 Grading, Structures, Gravelling P.T.H. No. 14A International Boundary - Buffalo Lake Drain 11.7 Bitliminous Mat

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P.T.H, No 15 Vivian - Elma 17.0 Completion, Grading and Gravelling St. Boniface - Transcona 7.0 Stabilized Base and Prime Treatment P.T.H. No, 18 Ninette Junct. P.T.H. #2 12.0 Prime Treatment Killarney By-Pass 1.0 Prime Treatment Junct. P.T.H. #3 - Inter- national Boundary 6.0 Second Prime Treatment P.T.H. No, 20 Dauphin By-Pass 1.0 Grading and Gravelling Wilson River - North 5.0 Grading and Gravelling P.T.H. No, 21 Madora Cor. .P.T.H. #2 24.0 Prime Treatment P.T.H. No. 22 P.T.H. #1E - Gull Lake 26.0 Prime Treatment Grand Beach Cr. - Victoria Beach 10.5 Clearing and Grading P.T.H. No. 23 East of Miami 3.0 Regrading and gravelling P.T.H. No. 25 Rivers - P.T.H. #10 12.0 Bituminous Mat P.T.H. #50 East of McCreary 5.0 Grading and Gravelling P.T.H. No. 59 Bird's Hill - P.T.H. #1E 8.8 Completion of Grading, Stabilized Base and Prime Treatment Nairn Ave. - Trane-Canada 4.3 Stabilized Base and Prime Treatment St. Pierre - Nanning Canal 17.0 ,Gravel and Chloride Stabilization St. Malo - St. Pierre 9.0 Grading and Gravelling P.T.H. No. 59A Des Neurons Archibald Widening and Bituminous Mat P.T.H. #83 From P.T.H. #2 South 6.0 Gravelling and Structure Swan River to Kenville 9.0 Prime Treatment Kenville to Benito 14.0 Regravelling Benito to Sask. #49 Junction 2.0 Grading and Gravelling Trans-Canada (East) Norwood Bridge Ste. Anne's Access Road 29.0 Completion of Concrete Pavement Ste, Anne's Access Road Junct. P.T.H. #11 34.0 .Stabilized Base and Bituminous Mat Whitemouth River - Falcon Creek 26.6 Completion of Grading, Rockwork„ Structures and Gravelling - more - - 4 - Location mileage Nature of Work

Trans-Canada (East) (Cont 'd) Falcon Creek - Ontario Boundary 9.7 Rockwork Grading and Structures Trans-Canada (West) Deer Lodge - Kirkfield Park 2.5 Bituminous Mat on North Lane P.T.H. #1 West of Hesdingly to P.T.H. #1 East of Portage la Prairie 33.5 Grading, Structures and Traffic Gravel Brandon - Saskatchewan Boundary 75.0 Shoulder Stabilization

Miscellaneous Holland - Austin Road: P.T.H. #2 - Assiniboine Valley 6.4 Grading and Gravelling Assiniboine River Bridge Complete deck and railing Assiniboine Valley - Austin 18.5 Completion, Grade and Gravelling

Letellier Bridge: Red River Crossing ,Foundation investigations, Substructure design and pier Construction.

First St. Bridge - Brandon Repairs and Widening

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