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The Prince Edward Island government has released this map depicting the route the Trans-Canada Highway will take around Cornwall after construction is complete in 2019.
Province to hold information session on finalized route Tuesday evening
CORNWALL — The provincial government announced Wednesday that the route for the new Cornwall bypass has been chosen.
The perimeter highway will begin at the York Point Road intersection with the Trans-Canada Highway and will continue west along the north side of Cornwall and joins back to the existing Trans-Canada Highway in Clyde River.
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Additional related work in the North River area through to Maypoint, including the construction of several roundabouts, will preceed construction of the perimeter highway.
An information session for the public will be held at the APM Centre in Cornwall on Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 7-9 p.m. Information sessions are being held with landowners and commercial business operators.
Transportation Minister Paula Biggar said selection of the preferred route was based on a number of considerations, including environmental and socio-economic factors, along with landowner consultations.
“Several potential routes for the new highway were considered and thoroughly assessed by an independent consultant,” said Biggar “This strategic infrastructure investment will be constructed to today’s safety standards, improve the transport of goods, and benefit Islanders.”
Biggar said she is pleased that the Town of Cornwall has endorsed the route “which will enable it to undertake new development opportunities.”
Construction is scheduled to begin in 2017 and be completed by 2019.
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The new bypass will be definitely alleviate some of the traffic coming through cornwall ... especially those big rigs, trucking through town. The businesses will be affected somewhat but I believe tourists and locals will still come around. I am hoping for a true bypass, ie. no lights, and not just a road, like the charlottetown by-pass.
I sure hope that the Cornwall Bypass will actually be a bypass and hopefully not engineered like the so-called Charlottetown Bypass. The Charlottetown Bypass is simply a street. Too many intersections with traffic lights. A properly engineered bypass would have off and on ramps and overpasses at all intersections. There should have been no traffic light intersections from the Hillsborough Bridge right out to the Upton Road. Best of luck Cornwall.
Alas poor Cornwall, we (used to) know thee well. Seriously, when has a country bypass ever benefited the community bypassed? I hope the Cornwall businesses, who actually do support this new road by the way, don't come to regret their support. All I know is that I will likely never see Cornwall again once this bypass is opened.
I agree with the statements below. I will not stop in Cornwall now that I can drive by, it's only a few more minutes to Ch'town. I lived away for a long time, part of what makes PEI unique is driving through the little communities. People don't come here to visit to drive on a highway through farmer's fields. Another horrible decision by our government, what are they thinking!
As a native Islander who, like many other re-located Islanders, returns home each year to visit family, I am consistently amazed by the lengths Roundabout Island, er, excuse me, Prince Edward Island goes to in order to isolate our lovely little communities and damage local economies in the areas that these pointless bypasses seek to avoid. Question: has Plan B turned out to be the brilliant idea that it was touted to be? Seriously, folks, we're an Island with a total population that is the equivalent to the total population of the small city of Kingston, Ontario. It takes 2.5 hours - DRIVING THE SPEED LIMIT - to get from one end of our Island to the other. What exactly are we needing to bypass, folks?! Chill out. Enjoy our communities and all they have to offer. It's worth the 3 minutes of traffic congestion.
Jolyn...you chose not to live here anymore! BUD OUT!!
With messages like this no wonder islanders relocate.