As the final phase of the Kicking Horse Canyon Highway Improvement Project goes forward to a proposal call for the design-build project this fall, it will set new records for expenditures on highway construction and challenge the best and brightest in engineering.

Phase 4 will complete a two-decade effort of upgrades to 26 kilometres of the Trans-Canada Highway that runs between Golden and the Yoho National Park's western B.C. border at a cost of $767 million when complete in 2024. More than half the budget is allocated to Phase 4, which is a four-kilometre stretch of highway. The first phase was completed in 2006.

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