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$1-billion
Partnership to Revitalize BC Rail
November 25, 2003 – Transportation Minister Judith
Reid announces the $1-billion BC Rail Investment Partnership
with CN to revitalize rail service to northern communities.
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Okanagan
Lake Bridge Unveiling
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 – Transportation Minister Judith
Reid (front)and platform party unveil a model of the new $100-million
Okanagan Lake Bridge in Kelowna. Platform party includes, left
to right: Robert Hobson, Central Okanagan Regional District
Chair; His Worship Walter Gray, Mayor of Kelowna; Hon. Bill
Barisoff, MLA, Penticton-Okanagan Valley; John Weisbeck, MLA,
Kelowna-Lake Country; Hon. Sindi Hawkins, MLA, Kelowna-Mission;
and Hon. Rick Thorpe, MLA, Okanagan-Westside. Minister Reid
was in Kelowna to fulfil Premier Gordon Campbell's commitment
to deliver a new Okanagan Lake Bridge.
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Transportation
Minister Judith Reid is joined by local officials and MLAs to
fulfill Premier Gordon Campbell's commitment to deliver a new
Okanagan Lake Bridge. Officials include, left to right, Robert
Hobson, Central Okanagan Regional District Chair; His Worship
Walter Gray, Mayor of Kelowna; Hon. Bill Barisoff, MLA, Penticton-Okanagan
Valley; Minister Reid; John Weisbeck, MLA, Kelowna-Lake Country;
Hon. Sindi Hawkins, MLA, Kelowna-Mission; Hon. Rick Thorpe,
MLA, Okanagan-Westside.
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Transportation
Minister Judith Reid announces government will spend more than
$100 million to deliver a new Okanagan Lake Bridge in Kelowna.
MLAs John Weisbeck (Kelowna-Lake Country) and Hon. Rick Thorpe
(Okanagan-Westside) look on.
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Transportation
Minister Judith Reid discusses government's plan to deliver
a new five-lane bridge over Okanagan Lake in Kelowna. The bridge
will be built with a marine channel to allow traffic to drive
uninterrupted while boats pass underneath.
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Rutherford
Creek Bridge Flood Impact
October 20, 2003 – Transportation Minister Judith Reid
surveys flood impact at the Rutherford Creek bridge site. During
a fly-over of the affected areas, the Minister assessed the
situation on the Sea-to-Sky highway and other flood-affected
areas. As well she met with the mayors of Squamish, Whistler
and Pemberton.
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Border
Infrastructure Project Office Open for Business
July 24, 2003 – Transportation Minister Judith Reid is
flanked by MLAs Reni Masi, Kevin Falcon and Brenda Locke at
ribbon-cutting to officially open the Border Infrastructure
project office in Cloverdale. The office will serve as operations
centre for $211 million in improvements to Highways 10, 11,
15 and 91, the main corridors leading to the Lower Mainland's
four border crossings. Funding is shared by the provincial and
federal governments.
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Official
Opening of Kincolith Extension Highway
May 17, 2003 – B.C. Transportation Minister Judith Reid
is joined by Dr. Joseph Gosnell, president of the Nisga'a
Lisims Government (left), and Robert Nault, Minister of Indian
Affairs and Northern Development Canada (right), cutting a
cedar ribbon to officially open the road between Laxgalts'ap
(Greenville) and Gingolx (Kincolith) on May 17, 2003. More
than 1,000 people gathered to celebrate the official linking
of the two communities by road. Construction on the 29-kilometre,
two-lane all-weather gravel road started in 2000. The $34
million, jointly-funded Kincolith Extension Highway traverses
some of the most geo-technically challenging and visually
stunning terrain in Canada.
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$18
Million to Improve Safety on Sea-to-Sky Highway
May 3, 2003 – Transportation Minister Judith Reid and
West Vancouver-Garibaldi MLA Ted Nebbeling were on hand as
construction began on a major highway improvement project
on the Sea-To-Sky Highway. The $18.3 million project will
result in the construction of seven kilometres of highway
between Culliton Creek and Cheakamus Canyon, and the twinning
of the Culliton Creek Bridge.
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Infrastructure
Funding Announcement
March 5, 2003 – Federal Minister of Natural Resources,
Herb Dhaliwal, joins Premier Gordon Campbell and BC Transportation
Minister Judith Reid at announcement of $336 million in joint
funding for transportation improvements in the Kicking Horse
Pass and at the province's border crossings. The announcement
was made March 5 in Vancouver.
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Prime
Minister Jean Chretien announces federal contribution of $367
million in joint funding for transportation improvements in
B.C.
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BC
Transportation Minister, Judith Reid acknowledges importance
of joint federal/provincial funding for significant transportation
improvements throughout the province.
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Opening
Up B.C. Stakeholder Briefing
February 13, 2003 – BC Transportation Minister, Judith
Reid provides details on expanded funding for transportation
in all regions of the province.
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BC
Transportation Minister, Judith Reid provides background on
many transportation improvements that will be financed through
dedicated transportation funding over the next three years.
Reid provided briefing to transportation stakeholders February
13 in Vancouver.
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BC
Transportation Minister, Judith Reid announces strategy to
open up BC to increased trade and economic development through
significant investments in transportation.
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Deputy
Minister for Transportation, Dan Doyle joins Transportation
Minister Judith Reid at stakeholder briefing in Vancouver.
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Budget
2003
February 12, 2003
– Forests Minister Mike de Jong, Transportation Minister
Judith Reid and Finance Minister Gary Collins respond to media
questions at announcement of Budget 2003.
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