A city councillor is renewing calls for a Trans-Canada Highway bypass to help alleviate traffic jams in east Regina.
Ward 4 councillor Michael Fougere will submit a motion to city council today to remind Saskatchewan’s Minister of Highways and Infrastructure that a bypass is necessary. It would help alleviate heavy traffic flow on Victoria Avenue East by allowing traffic coming off the Trans-Canada Highway to bypass the city all-together.
The bypass would be helpful with the global transport hub that’s being done on the west side of the city.
“This will keep the larger traffic through the city, over to the transportation hub and take it around the city,” said Fougere. “(It) makes it much more efficient.”
The bypass would cost the province between $150 and $200 million. Fougere would like to see it become part of Saskatchewan’s five-year capital plan.
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