Newfoundland & Labrador

[LilianaUwU]

https://ntv.ca/province-issues-tender-to-complete-team-gushue-highway/

Final segment of the Team Gushue Highway is expected to start construction this fall with a completion date of ~2026-2027. Will include three roundabouts near the Pitts Memorial Drive (Highway 2) interchange.

Do I need to say that naming a highway after living people, in this case a curling team, is incredibly tacky?

[Great Lakes Roads]

Some major news from the transportation department within the past month...

Brush clearing awarded for upcoming expansion of TCH 1

Contract awarded for completion of Team Gushue Highway

Brush clearing for passing lanes in the Port aux Basques area

[Great Lakes Roads]

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/10m-galway-interchange-opens-help-204526433.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMa-0Pqew563_rqMWyRvNxVACz_JWe84DeEQ2n8x8JjIS-3jiRrLca5UAciAnZbCsmfZSBdIcnZfKMfpHuPVK9dGpg9z3LWzvW3AfJxO1rx_dJf_I4DzLTQZWSseWENHWOpGg9uyhBSykZlL3lALusACCokOvyNEBoMYK29D1gMq

New interchange on the TCH 1 near St. John's.

[Great Lakes Roads]

Request for Proposals Issued for Highway Twinning Project

As part of the Provincial Government's ongoing efforts to increase safety along sections of the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH), a request for proposals (RFP) has been issued for the design, construction, financing and maintenance of the highway twinning project slated for two sections of the highway.

Announced in May 2023, the $306 million highway twinning project will facilitate the addition of up to 55 kilometres of new lanes of the TCH to help increase traffic capacity and ensure better separation between opposing traffic lanes. This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. The TCH is part of the National Highway System, a federal designation for a strategic network of highways and freeways.

The project will include a 15-kilometre section between Bishop's Falls and Grand Falls-Windsor in the Central region, as well as a section on the Avalon Peninsula of approximately 40 kilometres beginning at Whitbourne and heading west. Once completed, snow clearing and line painting operations for these sections of highway will remain with public service employees.

In December 2024, a request for qualifications invited interested parties to submit their qualifications for the twinning project. Following that process, successful candidates are now invited to participate in the next stage of the competitive selection process, which is the RFP stage.

Twinning these sections of the TCH will help increase traffic capacity and ensure separation between opposing traffic lanes. These improvements will also support reliability and security of access between rural communities, strengthen year-round transportation connections, improve transportation safety and enhance the Trans-Canada Highway's resilience to climate change.

The RFP closes end of day on February 26, 2026.

Following the original announcement, the Provincial Government planned to add a further 20 kilometres to the section of highway designated for twinning on the Avalon, fully funded at the provincial level. Since that time, however, a decision has been made to pause the 20-kilometre extension, in the absence of a cost-sharing agreement with the Federal Government for that portion of the National Highway System.

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"We have now moved to the request for proposals stage of this project, which is significant in terms of our ongoing efforts to modernize our provincial roads infrastructure. The twinning of these sections of the Trans-Canada Highway is very important from a road safety perspective, in particular, as well as helping keep our towns and communities connected. I am very pleased that we are now one step closer to bringing this project to fruition."
Honourable Elvis Loveless
Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure

[Great Lakes Roads]

Here's a video progress on the Team Gushue Highway extension project.

[Rothman]

Hm.  Kind of sad about this, but if it's needed for safety, so be it.