“PRIME MINISTER TO PRESIDE

‘TCH To Open This Year Cut Much Work Remains

By ALEX MORIN ~

Canadian Pres Staff Writer completed

, The Trans-Canada Highway

will Be opened officially this | year although it may take an- other two years or more before the project to span Canada with a top - Botch paved road is com- plete.

Initiated in 1950, work on the 4,859 - mile highway was due for completion in 1956. The target date then was ex- tenced to 1960 and later to Dec 31, 1963.

Quebec entered the federal- provincial cost - sharing agree- ment in October, 1960, and is barely getting under way with its 298-mile link in the east- west span. It is estimated the Quebee project will cost $240,- 000.000 — about one - third of all money. spent on the Trans- Canada Highway in the last 12 years.

A Cross - Canada Survey by The Canadian Press showed that about 3.293 miles of highway have been completed to stand- ard and that another 1,566 are below the specifications set for the broad, two-lane paved road. MOST PAVED

ofr the about 1,300 miles are paved and another 370 gravelled.

It was announced last Novem- ber that the prime minister will preside at opening ceremonies next September. They will be at Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park in British Columbia where the federal government is spending $21,000,000 on a 27-mile stretch of the highway through mountainous avalanche country.

The federal government pays the entire cost of roadway through national parks. When its work was complete this year, it will have spent $73,000,000 on 140 miles of road in five parks.

Ottawa also pays 50 per cent of the total cost of the provin- cial sections plus an added 4 per cent on one - tenth of each province’s mileage. The federal share of the cost in the prov- inces now has reached $404,100,- 000, bringing the government's total outlay to $477,100,000. MORE THAN ESTIMATED

The provinces have paid $278,- 700,000, bringing the total cost | of the highway so far to $755,- 800,000. Estimates made when the project was started in 1950 | placed cost at about $300,000,- 000.

Estimated cost of work in each of the provinces to the end of 1961, with the federal share bracketed:

Newfound land $48,700,000 ($30,700,000); Prince Edward Is- l-nd_ $9,300,000 — ($6,100,000); Nova Scotia $24,100,000 ($17,- 000,000); New Brunswick $57,- 800,000 ($37,500,000): Quebec | $32,700,000 ($19,000,000); Ontario $213,300,000 +$122,000,000): Man- itoba $34,800,000 ($20,400,000); Saskatchewan $28,200,000 ($16,- 100,000); Alberta $37,100,000 ($22,200,000); British _Columbia $196,800,000 ($113,100,000).

The provinces are responsible for the entire cost of anything beyond the standard require- ment of a two - lane highway with broad shoulders.

FOUR LANES PLANNED

In Quebec, for example, the provincial government is taking advantage of the agreement to build a two-lane highway par- allel to provincial highway. 9 and is improving the old road at its own cost with the aim of

providing a four - lane boule- |

vard across the province. j In its first year of participa- | tion, Quebec laid 20 miles of

pavement and completed grad. #-—

ing on another 12. Contracts valued at $16,000,000 have been

awarded for paving another 90 |

miles, _-

A federal,works defartment'|" spokesman said that although ft |

seemed impossible for’ Quebec to get all its work done by the

end of 1963, there was a chance | if the present rate of construc- |

tion continued. Chances for completion im Newfoundland are less promis-

ing, he said. Its section is 540 |

miles with only 168 completed. There are another 10 miles of

sub - standard paved road and

362 of gravel road. WORK SLOWED Ninety-nine miles were paved

in Newfoundland in 1960. Last | year 31 miles were paved and |

another 19 graded. This year work will concentrate on the worst sections where the road must be pushed through many sections of: rock.

Four have finished their sections. Saskatchewan was first, completing its #6 miles in 1960. Work was com- pleted last year on Prince Ed- ward Island's 71 miles atid Man- itoba’s 306. Alberta finished its 282 miles in 1960.

Ontario completed paving 228-4 miles in 1961. This makes 1,158 miles up to Trans - Canada standards. The remainder is 300 miles of sub - standard paved road. Cost of the 1961 work was $17,850,000. Work projected for 1962 includes 26 miles of paving,

miles of grading and con- struction of seven new bridges. MORE BRIDGES

New Brunswick paved - -miles—in- 1960 and 15.6 in 19681 with 22 miles graded and 10 bridges built. The expense was $5.500,000. The province now

has 206 miles up to standard and another 184 sub-standard Pavement.

Nova Scotia is in much the

Substandard section |

same “ydsition with 119 miles pavement below the standard. and 187 miles of old The main 1961 accomplishment

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was of the Big Bras! Or bridge. The 2.740 - foot ip Cape Breton cost |

About 12 miles in the |

Influenza has closed schools at Sundridge. River, and) Powassan, communities | about 40 south of here. | |The three bave heen am |

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