Northern mayor welcomes news of nearly complete Garson Lake road expansion
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The Northern Village of La Loche is welcoming a provincial announcement made Friday about the near completion of Saskatchewan’s portion of the Garson Lake all-weather road.
“The Northern Village of La Loche have been a strong advocate for the Fort McMurray link for decades, so this initiative, we welcome it, and the Northern Village of La Loche will continue to advocate the province to put pressure to ask the provincial government of Alberta to consider building the actual bridge and fix the road on their end,” said La Loche Mayor Georgina Jolibois.
In January 2022, the Saskatchewan government committed to completing the final nine kilometers of the road and spent $9 million to do so. At the time, the final stretch of road to the Alberta border was expected to be finished by the end of 2023.
The road between La Loche and Fort McMurray was initially announced as a project to commemorate the two province’s centennials in 2005. Saskatchewan broke ground on Highway 956, its portion of the project, in 2007, and completed 44 of the total 53 kms in 2008.
