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By Dylana Kneeshaw

TRAFFIC DETOURS

Tranquille Road set to re-open with road work pausing over winter

Nov 5, 2025 | 4:37 PM

KAMLOOPS — Traffic through Brocklehurst is expected to become a lot smoother over the next three months. Construction crews are working to get as much done as they can on Tranquille Road before paving it over for the winter and tearing up the remaining section of road in the spring. It means drivers — and Brock neighbourhoods — will get a break from the current detour and be able to drive straight through Tranquille.

Matt Kachel, the City of Kamloops’ infrastructure delivery divisional manager, says it all depends on the weather but Tranquille Road is set to reopen to regular traffic in early December.

“With the rain and stuff, it’s hard to say but we’re supposed to pave on Saturday (Nov. 8).”

The budget is still on track and work to replace the aging sewer main is about 35 per cent complete, which Kachel says is five per cent shy of where the city wanted to be before the scheduled winter break.

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“We’re pretty confident we’ll make it up next year and still finish on time overall,” adds Kachel. “But yeah, working in an old corridor like this, there’s lots of surprises. We did the best we could with surveying and scoping but doing all the sanitary connections to each property has been a lot of work.”

The plan is to pause everything for three months, then pick back up again in early March.

“We couldn’t do it all in one year — it’s just too big of a project. It’s about 2.2 kilometres of sewer main and the nice stuff on top that we’ll come back and put in next year, like the landscaping, the multi-use path and pieces like that,” explains Kachel.

For residents who live along the streets used for detouring, the winter break can’t come soon enough.

“The last little while with this construction on Tranquille, it has really impacted the traffic on Young Avenue,” says Mike Graw, who lives along Young Ave.

The city set up reminder signs and residents say bylaw and police have been out several times but it hasn’t stopped the volume of vehicles blowing through the neighbourhood.

“I haven’t seen anyone going 30 km/h.” CFJC commented to Graw Tuesday.

“No. No. Nobody does. This is one of my neighbours here,” he replies while gesturing to a car slowly passing by. “He makes sure that we do 30 km/h along here. Just setting an example.”

Graw and other residents are hopeful that, come springtime, drivers will return to the detour route with renewed patience and without lead feet.

“It’s a detour. It’s something that had to be done. Just a little common sense and respect,” reiterates Graw.