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Highway 33 Transportation Improvements
Highway 33 from Muir to Gallagher Roads
Introduction
Design and construction of the Highway 33 improvements is being lead by the Ministry of Transportation & Infrastructure (MOTI) in partnership with the City of Kelowna.
A news conference was held by MOTI on April 1, 2009, announcing construction for fall. The addition of a climbing lane, known as Walker Hill was announced a week later by the provincial and federal governments.
The City of Kelowna's $12-million investment into the improvements of Highway 33 will provide safer connections and mobility options for residents with the addition of sidewalks, lighting, and landscaping. A portion of the funding will also improve storm water management best practices to protect the quality of creeks and streams.
The City will also construct the next phase of Gopher Creek Linear Park this summer which will include a pedestrian underpass connecting the neighbourhoods on the north side of Highway 33 with the existing trail near Black Mountain Elementary.
Schedule
Construction started November 30 and will be completed by October 2010.
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Project Objectives:
- Improve traffic mobility and safety for all roadway users along this corridor to enhance accessibility for residents in this rapidly growing section of Kelowna
- Consolidate numerous accesses and intersections to reduce conflict points
- Sustain service to longer distance trips, including recreational, commercial and tourist traffic accessing Big White and the Kootneay-Boundry area
- Improvement features include:
- widening to four lanes from Muir to Gallagher Roads
- left turn bays, acceleration and deceleration lanes, and signals at Loseth and Gallagher
- flush or curbed median
- channelized left turn lanes at Garner, Toovey and Springfield
- continuous street lighting
- sidewalk and boulevard, north side from McKenzie to Gallagher, and both sides from Garner to Gallagher
- shoulder bikeways
Highway 33 - Fly-thru Animation (15.6 MB) |
For more information contact:
Helen Evans, Project Manager
Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
250 712-3646
Helen.Evans@gov.bc.ca
Andrew Albiston
Roadways Project Manager
City of Kelowna
250 469-8569
aalbiston@kelowna.ca
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