
Kamloops MLAs propose safety improvements for Highway 5
KAMLOOPS — In advance of the upcoming provincial budget and the 2024 general election, B.C. United’s two Kamloops-area MLAs laid out a three-pronged plan to improve safety along the Highway 5 corridor from Kamloops to Valemount.
The plan, which speaks to enhanced trucking safety and year-round enforcement upgrades through increased BC Highway Patrol and CVSE officers, begins with needed infrastructure works along the dangerous corridor.
“We will add a minimum of three new passing lanes immediately. As I said, the last passing lanes were built in 2017 by our former government,” said Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone. “Secondly, there is an inventory of safety improvements that are also required up and down the corridor.”