Project Overview
Highway 17, between the Manitoba-Ontario border and Kenora, is a strategic link in the Trans-Canada Highway System. It serves long-distance commercial and tourist traffic, as well as local community traffic in both Manitoba and Ontario.
The objective of this study is to four-lane Highway 17 between the Manitoba / Ontario Border and Kenora. There are no alternate highway routes between Kenora and the Manitoba-Ontario Border for inter-provincial traffic; therefore, four-laning will provide an opportunity for redundancy of travel lanes if one direction is closed.
Four-laning Highway 17 will improve road safety by:
- providing increased opportunities for passing
- physically separating opposing lanes of traffic
- reducing congestion
- reducing travel time
- minimizing impacts to traffic during maintenance activities
The Study is being carried out in three sections:
Section #1
- From the Manitoba/Ontario Border and Highway 673 (6.5 kilometres)
- Status: Environmental Assessment (EA) is complete and construction has started
Section #2
- Between Highway 673 and Rush Bay Road (8.5 kilometres)
- Status: We are here. The EA is undergoing re-evaluation.
Section #3:
- Between Rush Bay Road and Highway 17A (24 kilometres)
- Status: Re-evaluation is required, timing to be determined