Kicking Horse Canyon Project Phase 4: West Portal to Yoho Bridge

completed

The Project involves improving a 4.8 km section of the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) east of Golden. The Project includes the realignment and upgrading of 4 km of 2-lane undivided highway to a 4-lane 100 km/h divided highway with an additional 0.8 km upgraded from existing 3 lanes undivided to 4 lanes divided. The upgrades would also include a median barrier, vertical and horizontal alignment improvements, shoulder widening, wildlife exclusion fencing, and mitigation measures for rock-fall and avalanche hazards. Mitigating against rock-falls and avalanches would be achieved using a combination of bridges, wide ditches, catchment benches, retaining walls, high energy rock-fall attenuation mesh, and other measures.