Sask to declare twinning for Hwy 11 to US border: Report

REGINA — The government of Saskatchewan is expected to announce this morning that a major highway artery to the U.S. border will be twinned.

According to the Regina Post Leader, Premier Lorne Calvert will likely make available money for Hwy 11 being twinned from Prince Albert to the Canada-U.S. border.

Preliminary work is reportedly underway in the area where Hwy 11 joins Hwy 2 to allow for the twinning.

Doug Wakabayashi, spokesman for the Department of Highways and Transportation, confirmed to the newspaper that Finance Minister Pat Atkinson is making the announcement today.

So far, work on twinning Hwy 11 has reached only as far north as Hague.

Dylan Clarke, interim chairman of the Soo Line Corridor Highway Association, said his group has been selling the idea of twinning highways 6 and 39 as well.

A twinned highway to Prince Albert and to the border would allow for improved trucking routes for the forestry industry as well as mining in the north.

Negotiations with the federal government for funding of the twinning are ongoing, said Wakabayashi.

— from the Regina Leader Post