OTTAWA — Touching on items ranging from the ring road around Medicine Hat to the badly needed upgrade of Highway 1 that joins Langley and Hope, BC, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) has pointed out a full 66 areas of national infrastructure that need attention now.

The coast-to-coast to-do list was compiled as CTA aims to help the Federal Government set spending priorities and improve transportation and trade efficiencies. The province-by-province breakdown was compiled with the help of provincial and regional trucking associations across the country.

“The companies that make up the 4,500-carrier [Canadian Trucking ] Alliance fully understand that federal budgets will continue to be constrained heading into 2012 and that some tough decisions will need to be made,” says CTA President David Bradley.

“However, because they’re out on the highways every day, truckers arguably have the clearest view of where efficiencies can be found and where infrastructure improvements would make the most sense."

Here’s the list. Do you agree with the priorities? Let todaystrucking.com know.

British Columbia:

Rest Stops

Sufficient number of adequately serviced rest stops at appropriate distances from major centres

Existing Infrastructure

• 4-laning of Highway #97 from Cache Creek to Prince George
• 4-laning of the Trans-Canada Highway #1 from Kamloops to the BC-AB border
• Upgrading Highway #3 to more 4-lane or passing lanes
• 6 lane Highway #1 from Hope to Langley
• 3 lane Highway #1 and/or add passing lanes where appropriate between Hope and Cache Creek
• Yellowhead #16 North of the Sun Peaks exit needs to be improved and upgraded
• Highway #5 and #16 upgrades to the Kamloops BC/AB border
• Highway #97 from Ft. St. John down to Highway #49 to the Alberta border
• Highway #97 from Prince George to Chetwynd 

Manitoba:

Existing Infrastructure

• Highway 75 – Upgrade to US Interstate standards. Construct by-pass around Morris or flood proof Morris
• Highway 59 – Re-surface from PTH 101 to PTH 100 and from Iles des Chenes to US border. Upgrade to RTAC standards from St. Malo to US border.
• Route 90 – Widen, develop truck lane, re-surface Ellice to Inkster
• PTH 101- Complete upgrade of intersection with PTH 59 North.
• Highway 6 – Replace sub-standard bridges, replace failed pavement sections, twin or develop passing lanes, install additional "no passing" signs (on left side of roadway) for blind curves.
• Highway 16 – Upgrade from Shoal Lake to SK border to allow movement of Rocky Mountain Doubles.

All RTAC highways in Manitoba need to be upgraded to accommodate 63,500 kg. weights.

New Infrastructure

• Morris by-pass of flood proof Morris
• Headingly by-pass
• St. Norbert by-pass

Ontario:

• New Infrastructure
• Second Bridge at Windsor Detroit
• Mid-Peninsula Corridor
• Upgrade Peace Bridge Facility to improve traffic flow

Rest Stops/Refueling Stations

• Along Highway #17 from North Bay to Manitoba Border
• More rest areas along 401 and parking facilities for LCVs
• CNG/LNG fueling infrastructure along the Windsor-Toronto-Montreal corridor

Expansion of Current Roadways

• Widening of 401, QEW and other congested 400-series highways, but particularly the 401 entering/exiting the GTA.
• Twinning of TransCanada (Highway 17) from North Bay to Manitoba Border
• 407 extension east
• Extension of Highway #427 north through Barrie
• Widening Highway 40 to four lanes between Highway 402 and Indian Road in Sarnia
• Widening of Highway #7 between Peterborough and Ottawa
• Highway #6 bypass of Morriston South of the #401
• Twin Highway #7 from Kitchener to Guelph
• Continue Highway 7&8 4-lane from New Hamburg and Stratford

Quebec:

Existing Infrastructure

• Champlain Bridge
• Honoré-Mercier bridge
• Route 85 from Quebec to New Brunswick
• Route 389 major investment needed (upgrades) considering Quebec government’s North plan
• Highway 25 and Notre-Dame Street in Port of Montreal area (new design needed)

Atlantic Canada:

Rest Stops

• Improve or add rest stops in NB and NS especially to handle LCVs
• Rest stop outside of Confederation Bridge on NB side. (When bridge closes.)

New Infrastructure

• Twining of Highway 185 NB to Quebec

Saskatchewan:

Rest Stops

• Need sufficient number of adequately serviced rest stops at appropriate distances from major centres

New Infrastructure

• More roadways, interchanges and staging areas are needed at – and in proximity to – the Global Transportation Hub near Regina.
• TransCanada Highway bypass needed in southeast Regina to accommodate significant increases in truck traffic using the Global Transportation Hub.

Existing Infrastructure

• Highway #2, second bridge needed in Prince Albert to span North Saskatchewan River
• TransCanada Highway, west of Regina in need of repairs.
• Junction #1 and #46 upgrade needed to accommodate LCVs
• #6 south of #13 in need of repairs due to increased oilfield and ag traffic
• #10 between Balgonie and Yorkton, twinning needed to increase safety and accommodate higher traffic volumes
• #12 from Saskatoon to Blaine Lake needs upgrades due to increased truck traffic
• #16 from Saskatoon to Jansen Lake Mine, road is good but would benefit from twinning as a safety precaution
• #48 from Kipling to Kennedy, badly in need of rebuild and shoulder widening

Alberta:

Rest Stops

• Rest area between Calgary and Red Deer needed badly on north bound side. New Infrastructure
• Provincial Highway Construction & Rehabilitation
• North/South Trade Corridor
• Ring Roads in Edmonton and Calgary
• Northeast Alberta Transportation Corridor (NATC)

Existing Infrastructure

• Twinning highway 2 from Beaverlodge to BC border, BC has announced it is twinning from the AB border to FT. St. John.
• Ring road around Medicine Hat on highway 1.
• Finish twinning highway 63.
• Look at adding a third lane on highway 2, between Calgary-Edmonton Corridor.
• Repair the highway’s frost heaves on the north bound lane from Bezanson to Grande Prairie.
• Twinning the highway system from Edmonton area to Ft McMurray