Trans-Canada Highway
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Sep 14, 2026
Tessa MorrowHOST
Others are merely pavement.
Tessa MorrowHOST
The soul of Highway 16, the 720-kilometer-long branch of the Trans-Canada Highway, that spans northern British Columbia from Prince George to Prince Rupert is deeply troubled.
Tessa MorrowHOST
It's a mean road.
Tessa MorrowHOST
Logging trucks, as rickety as they are overladen, roar its length day and night.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The Nanaimo News Bulletin has more details online.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Recent crashes on a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway between Sycamus and Revelstoke have prompted concerns from local politicians and residents.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Four vehicle collisions in just two days resulted in three deaths and at least six injuries.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Columbia River Revelstoke MLA Scott McInnis and Kamloops Shoeswap Central Rockies MP Mel Arnold are now urging British Columbia's Transportation Minister to take action.
Mike WeirGUEST
Yeah.
Mike WeirGUEST
Right a- right, right along the Trans-Canada Highway, just, just from, uh, I guess Portage over to north of the city and, and parts within Winnipeg too that, uh, got a lo- [laughs] got a lot of rain on the weekend.
Shaun HaneyHOST
Slows things down.
Shaun HaneyHOST
We don't turn a lot of wheels when we get, you know, three to five inches of rain during this time of the year, and it, and it, and it doesn't dry fast either.
Shaun HaneyHOST
Wow.
Mike WeirGUEST
Yeah, right a- right, right along the Trans-Canada Highway, just, just from, uh, I guess Portage over to north of the city and, and parts within Winnipeg too that, uh, got a lo- [laughs] got a lot of rain on the weekend.
Shaun HaneyHOST
Slows things down.
Shaun HaneyHOST
We don't turn a lot of wheels when we get, you know, three to five inches of rain during this time of the year, and it, and it, and it doesn't dry fast either.
Mac KinghornGUEST
We're now called the Northeast Regional Municipal Committee.
Mac KinghornGUEST
It's made up of about 11 different municipalities, basically north of the Trans-Canada Highway and from Springfield on out kind of a deal.
Mac KinghornGUEST
And it works really well.
Mac KinghornGUEST
Basically, what we deal with are issues virtually that are common to each of the different municipalities.
Mac KinghornGUEST
Letters have been written on many occasions to different ministers over different things.
Mac KinghornGUEST
We've had some very positive replies come back out of it, getting things done.
Mac KinghornGUEST
It's gotten to the extent now where the southeast, which is going to be the eastern part of Manitoba, south of the Trans-Canada Highway, has now set up a southeast regional municipal committee that is starting to get rolling now based on the successes that we were having, and it's moving things along quite well.
Mac KinghornGUEST
And this is basically all the municipalities are in on it.
Debbie MarcellosCORRESPONDENT
Then it's heavy from Christophe Cologne to Dakari.
Debbie MarcellosCORRESPONDENT
Eastbound Trans-Canada slows at Cavendish to board Dakari South.
Debbie MarcellosCORRESPONDENT
Northbound Dakari just a minor slowdown at Snowdon.
Debbie MarcellosCORRESPONDENT
And 25 south for La Fontaine Tunnel.
Darren JacklinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, what's the point of the story? Four months later, I go train this company.
Darren JacklinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're in Golden, British Columbia at the Quantum Leaps Lodge, just as you go into Golden on the Trans Canada Highway.
Darren JacklinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm training this company, training their executives, senior vice presidents, management.
Darren JacklinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we leave at the end of the day of the training.
Adam StirlingHOST
It was a slightly different time, though, in 2018.
Adam StirlingHOST
And it was at this point that the traveling, uh- The homeless camp in Saanich was, I think, still in Regina Park, which is just across the Trans-Canada Highway, for those of you who might not have been around, from Uptown.
Adam StirlingHOST
You know where the pedestrian bridge is, where Uptown, when you're heading up Douglas and you head out to the West Shore? That nice, well-manicured park that they have there today is what they ended up rebuilding after they cleared that out.
Adam StirlingHOST
It was an ordeal.
DomHOST
Once you've, when you've got such a huge home range, if you have a road that's plopped in the middle of this, it essentially cuts your range by half.
DomHOST
A really good example of this is the sort of, there was a study done on the Trans-Canada Highway.
DomHOST
Oh, interesting.
DomHOST
And they found that as a result of this highway, there was a very weak population structure in males.
Mark CarneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The nation building that Canadians pursued in the 19th and 20th centuries ran along a horizontal line.
Mark CarneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The railway, Trans-Canada Highway, stitched us together from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Mark CarneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now we're developing around that line, north and south.
Mark CarneySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A new iron spine with an electric grid that connects each and every one of us, regardless of where we live.
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