Governments Break Ground on First Gateway Project
February 9 – Premier Gordon Campbell, the Honourable David Emerson, Federal Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics, Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon and local MP James Moore, Parliamentary Secretary for the Pacific Gateway, broke ground on the site of what will be a new seven-lane bridge across the Pitt River. The federal and provincial governments have a cost-sharing agreement where the Province is providing $108 million and the federal government $90 million for the construction of the bridge and a new interchange at Lougheed Highway and Mary Hill Bypass.
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