We sure need that road! Truck loads of BC Bud to head south and even more truck loads of Liberal BS heading north (past Hope).

Should only take another 6 or 7 years given the amount of time we have been reading the liberal signs that have been placed along the highway.
After driving along the highway last week and seeing all the construction equipment parked you would wonder why the reduced speed construction signs are still in place. I guess the double fines for speeding in construction zones is a revenue builder for the liberal bank account. Gotta pay for the new roof on BC Place stadium somehow. The world does really end at Hope.

A case of politicians over-committing to something. It's simply not realistic to expect four lanes from PG to Vancouver in such a short period of time. As has been noted, a lot of progress has been made.

Much of the four-laning to be done now is in areas where it's going to be much more difficult (and costly) to do so... at railway overpasses and narrow rights-of-way.

I distinctly remember the Premier being interviewed by Ben Meisner on TV Channel 10 and when asked about the highway going south the Premier said that he would throw all the construction equipment and money (once the Olympic venues were finished!) into this four laning and get it done right away and once and for all!

Of course, this was before the global financial meltdown (something nobody anticipated except for those few head honchos in the know) so it is no big surprise to me that other matters have a higher priority now.

Education and healthcare come to mind and the maintaining of other essential government services.

Also, when Canada applied to host the Winter Olympics and got the green light Wall Street was still ticking along merrily and millions of Americans were buying houses without having the money or income to do so.

Then the bankers' bubble burst...

"Gotta pay for the new roof on BC Place stadium somehow. "

Apparently the government owns a lot of valuable land in the vicinity of BC Place Stadium and it plans to sell some of it to assist in the financing of the new roof.

The old fabric roof needs to be totally replaced in any case so I imagine they decided to bite the bullet and get a permanent new roof that does not need to be replaced every 25 years or so.

Perhaps it will save money in the long run.

I could swear that when the original project was planned there was no timeline, certainly not in the 15 year range.

So now where does the 4 laning to Vancouver come from? Did I miss something? The signs still call it the Cariboo Connector and the location of that is from Prince George to Cache Creek.

Will they 4 lane Hwy 1 from there to Hope, or will they go from there to Merritt? Or better still, try to emulate European mountian highways and build from Hat Creek to Pemberton/Whistler?

What's the full story here?

Ten year wait only if the Liberals remain in power...not likely. The voters of the North always seem to have "sucker" written on our heads.

BTW, I think that for many people and businesses a four lane road from here to Quesnel, especially one which includes a by-pass connection in Quesnel, would benefit this entire region the most.

Is there anyone here or in town who has enough verifiable knowledge about the trade between the two communities to provide a more fact based opinion on that?

Bully Gordo, had originally said "the Cariboo Connector was a FORTY year project"! So what is this BS about 10 years now?? I hope it is true, otherwise, I will have to drive it in my wheel chair, when I am near 90!

With the NDP in power in 2013, they will make the road a priority and fast-track it for a 3 year program.

With the Feds also having an NDP led coalition, they will be able to get federal money to 4 lane the connection between Kamloops and Cache Creek and pull it through to Lillooet and Pemberton/Whistler for the new western portion of the Trans Canada.

Goode bye Spences Bridge.

I am looking forward to 2020.

The section between Williams Lake and 100 Mile House seems to be a very busy section and should be done first. Lots of accidents on that stretch of highway.

Gus: "With the NDP in power in 2013, they will make the road a priority and fast-track it for a 3 year program."

Too much bait, Gus!

Are you trying to say I am trolling? :-)

Here is some more. :-)

With the NDP paying some attention to the North using public funds to build public infrastructure, the BCLiberals will then win the 2017 election on the promise to populate the communities along the road with new "green" industrial parks built outside the air sheds taking advantage of the road and the resources adjacent to it.

smoke and mirrors Be lucky if the 4 lanes get completed in 40 years By than it will be much to expensive to own or to drive a vechile.

Google...Giterdun News release Oct,19,2019

How can you market a Paciifc Gateway Transportation hub without a 4 lane highway south????

Basically the Transportation Gateway is also a political pipe dream.

More Liberal lies, thats to placate the great unwashed beyond hope for awhile
Im still waiting for them to break ground on our cancer clinic thats is supposed to be up and running by 2012
I'll still have hope but not much, the raises and the perks will come first,
The people and services will come dead last

Right after the Campbell was elected the second time (over six yrs. ago, he came to Prince George to announce money for a project of three lanes just south of Prince George and during that speech he said that his government over the next TEN years will have highway 97 three and four laned from prince George to Cache Creek. It is very interesting that over the past several years that this current cabinet has been denying where all of the highway money was going until two years ago. It finally admitted that costs for two major projects (Kicking Horse pass & Sea to Sky hwy.) were more than they expected so there was no money for major work; only minor projects. Now Ms. Bond is saying another ten years. I can't wait to hear in five years or the next election as to why there has only been about 30 to 60 kms of construction completed. Do you think the excuse might be paying off a debt to the cost of the Olympics. Oh, I forgot we are getting over one billion dollars from the feds for our new HST tax; that is going to save us!! Remember a couple months ago Mr. Dick Harris said he knew nothing about it but yet he is part ofthe Fed. government. Can we trust anyone in government anymore? We can be rest assurred of one thing with our politicians and that is they will have multiple answers for every question when it comes to money. One thing is for sure the current politicians will not be around in ten years to answers our questions!!!

Meanwhile it costs us about a dozen lives every winter until it gets done as we seen last week. I'm wondering what that is worth, or does it factor into the politicians equations?

Facts are the industrial trucks on our highways pay nearly a $1000 a day in taxes for each of them, and that would easily pay for a four lane highway, to say nothing of the convenience for none industrial traffic and the efficiency of trade... if only the priority was on the economy and not on a 2-week party for the elites.