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By James Peters

McGill Construction

Kamloops council okays summer utility, road work along McGill Road

Apr 28, 2020 | 5:23 PM

KAMLOOPS — Kamloops council has given the green light to a $1.4 million road and utility project in the area of Thompson Rivers University.

The project will see a portion of McGill Road dug up – with underground utilities upgraded and moved so TRU can develop a parcel of land at the corner of McGill and Summit Drive.

Utilities Engineer Liam Baker told council that, though the TRU-related work is relatively small, it makes sense to do the larger project at the same time.

“It will allow for easier construction, so we won’t have to remobilize to the site in the next five or ten years and do some of that work anyway,” said Baker. “It avoids duplicating the impact to traffic and stuff like that in the corridor. We do gain some economies of scale because we’re doing a larger amount of work at the same time.”

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Baker says some short-term safety improvements will be made to the pedestrian-heavy stretch of road, with longer-term improvements still on the books.

“I think this will have a great impact… on not just vehicles, but on the people walking and the people using bikes through that corridor,” remarked Councillor Mike O’Reilly. “To do this once instead of doing it again in five or ten years, this will save a lot of pain over the long term. I greatly appreciate the department trying to find those efficiencies to do things at the same time.”

Construction is slated to begin next month at wrap up by the end of November, 2020.