Click images to enlarge.
Highway 97 — Bentley Road to Okanagan Lake Park — Four Laning
The project is located on the Highway 97, immediately north of Summerland between Bentley Road and Okanagan Lake Park. The project involves widening 7 km of the Highway 97 from two lanes to four lanes and constructing 3 km of frontage roads to consolidate local accesses.
Benefits
- A new four-laning of the Highway 97 will improve safety, mobility, capacity, reduce delays and improve travel times.
- Will provide assured passing opportunities, because the heavy trucks will use the outside lane and leave the inside lane for faster traffic.
- Consolidating accesses off the highway will reduce accidents.
- The project will also provide safety improvements such as wider pave shoulders, paved centerline median, rumble strips and roadside barriers.
Completion
- The project opened to the public August 11, 2010
Contact
- Ministry of Transportations and Infrastructure
Rampaul Dulay
Project Manger
250-828-4297
Top