Takes them 2 years to build an overpass in Kelowna now days for perspective lol.

@spencermatthews5942

2 жыл бұрын

It's taken 20 years to build 20 kms of the Kicking Horse pass project, and they're still five years away from completion! Really pathetic!

I heard that the then premier's buddies bought a lot of land there just before the project got underway, and then sold the land to the province for a hefty profit.

God damn this is impressive .. WCB would lose their mind if this was today .

@etonchambers4872

8 жыл бұрын

haha aint that the truth

@omegaseamaster1550

3 жыл бұрын

I ws thinking the same thing. No hi viz vest (limited use) not to mention guys riding beams from a crane or heaven forbid smoking while operating a crane.

I live on the coquahala It boggles the mind!!!

@Wildstar40

3 жыл бұрын

Why does it boggle the mind ?

@misterfunnybones

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wildstar40 When Coquihalla becomes coquahala, the mind is boggled, but the why question remains...

@MustyBastard

3 жыл бұрын

should be the cokeahaulya for all the coke thats ran by the hells angels on this road

@mahbubmo

3 жыл бұрын

You live there and can't spell.

@MustyBastard

3 жыл бұрын

@@mahbubmo Its a joke about drug trafficking you dim wit . I know how to spell coquihalla

Interesting because I am a Land Surveyor. We come in first with topography mapping ... and finish last with "as builts" of the finished infrastructure such as power and storm water structures. 20 months it took and blown away by the floods of November 2021 in days .

I still prefer to drive the original Trans Canada highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon - I'd rather gas up in Cache Creek than Merritt any day! Fraser Canyon route is way more scenic and more driving fun especially if driving stick shift and no big mother-of-all hill climbs....But yeah if all you want to do is get from Vancouver to Kamloops ASAP the Coquihalla is it.

@Phourtwenny

7 жыл бұрын

The Fraser Canyon is beautiful but alot of single lane makes being behind motor homes a pain.

@dunkydog1676

4 жыл бұрын

Me to

@neilo.hislop950

3 жыл бұрын

I'd much rather haul up and down the Canyon in spite of the Flat landers and The Brown Brotherhood.

@dustinwatkins7843

3 жыл бұрын

@@kris-ms1974 GOOD animal abuse should not exist

@CB-zt6qs

2 жыл бұрын

To be honest, I love both. Specifically if you know where the right turn offs are to have a picnic, secret hikes that nobody knows about and have time on your hands.

Amazing project, 20 months for that Highway I used to travel 1-2 times a month for over 2 years, nuts. I feel sad for the other routes that this highway rerouted, but you got to think of the environmental benefits & economic savings that more direct routes between two places has. Ive only driven highway 1 once by myself, maybe 2-4 times over the last 15 years, and in the winter its still not super safe (better than the Coq though...). Gives me flashbacks to Route 66 in the movie Cars. Cache Creek and Keremeos isnt incredibly quiet these days. Lets just hope that Highway 3 can handle Highway 1 and 5 being offline for several months... in the winter...

20 months. That's impressive Can you send some of those people here to finish the 400 from Barrie to Sudbury and the Son in Ontario. 20 years and we still aren't finished LOL

@edwardschwenk3100

2 жыл бұрын

You can take all our environmentalists, & tree huggers, and put them to work. All they do here mostly is stand around, and protest everything from pipelines to railroads. Do you need people qualified to hold signs?

Watching this type of film makes me feel like I should be back in High School while my teacher throws a tape in to go outside and smoke a joint.

And as a frequent traveller I must say they did a damn good job.

Its. Amazing piece of work .. need to maintain in winter bit better . And further more need all four lanes to Alberta border in faster dedicated time. Infrastructure lags in BC big way as the population grows at fast pace . Awesome job .

Now takes 20 years to build 1

That’s a sexy new river. According to the music.

And yet in just a matter of days in November 2021, it was taken out by extreme weather

awesome video

What a great accomplishment

Just like the Interstate Highways in the US, the Coquihalla caused a lot of economic hardship for small towns and businesses along the old Hope-Princeton route. Keremeos especially was hard hit as all those tourists that used to stop and buy produce at the fruit stands now went a different route. Something that is rarely mentioned. Even today, Keremeos has never fully recovered from that hit and it got even worse once the Okanagan Connector was finalized in 1990.

@690_5

Жыл бұрын

I've hated Keremeos since I was a kid because my parents would stop at the fruit stands. I was also very scared of it, too. Not the most inviting place but it does have Green Mountain Road, doesn't it!

This is Nov. 17 2021 after it's collapse. How much will it take to fix it today? And to make necessary improvements? Millions!

@kappat4139

2 жыл бұрын

knowing our politicians, billions.

@terencechevalier5756

2 жыл бұрын

Lol billions and years and years with all new environmental rules lol

what a view coming down from the east ...

sweet film, great history too i doubt anymore highways will really be put in place anymore and if they are theyre most likely gonna be private and have toles and not be this great mass of asphalt taking you along coasts or through valleys and mountains and bs like that, it would have been so amazing to work on i bet, it really is a shame i was born in the 00s all i ever hear is talk about the old world before its self destruction of illusive people and mishaps, technology as well its just so very unfortunate.

There was a reason why the Railway abandoned the route. It falls several feet every Winter. The Maintainance crews still get caught with their pants down everytime it Snows.

@EdmontonRails

3 жыл бұрын

That and the gradients, it doesn't take much snow/ice to turn the highway into a disaster zone. It's also worth noting how much fuel is burned racing up steep hills at 140KM/H.

The 10$ toll fee should not be eliminated. That will keep this route well maintain and the alternate routes prosper. That fee should not be terminated at all.

@greathodgy22

2 жыл бұрын

We could send you your own individual bill !

Crazy that all this wasn't enough to survive this years flooding 🇨🇦

A lot of boys from Alberta, Saskatchewan, etc. Worked in its construction

@jonurton7826

2 жыл бұрын

That’s where most of the work force comes from haha

Wonder why they didn't tunnel? Less snow wine rain ?

The music is so bad it's good!

Now this project, the pinnacle of human labour and the best we can do when it comes to building highways, has been wiped out effortlessly by Mother Nature.

@terencechevalier5756

2 жыл бұрын

Itll be fixed, it wasnt wiped out. Parts were damaged. Everyone acting like its wiped off the map smh

@CB-zt6qs

2 жыл бұрын

There's a few bridges down but it's not gone, similar to the Canyon route. It's inevitable that this was going to happen, not like we can just put in a new bridge every 3 years. As well, if you look at the bridges structures they did a damn good job at forecasting what strength truly is. From sub zero temperatures, to extreme heat, to mountains and mountains of snow every year, at being built in 1941.

@terencechevalier5756

2 жыл бұрын

@@CB-zt6qs lol i just had video recommend to me this morning about a study that was done a year ago on what would happen if the big flood hit the fraser valley, and boom it happened.

@CB-zt6qs

2 жыл бұрын

@@terencechevalier5756 That happens with everything you watch on KZread but it is interesting.

@slg792

2 жыл бұрын

@@terencechevalier5756 highway 8 is pretty much, the coke isn’t too bad

Came because of the recent flooding damage at the old railway tunnels which is a park & tourist attraction.

Amazing they did that in just 20 months . That would never happen in America too red tape and many people with their hand out to make money off it one way or another

And in one day it got ruined. Great work TranBC!

We can’t work this well anymore

Would never get this done in a million years these days with all the activism and red tape

Today is would take 7 years longer, cost 4 times as much and have over runs of triple the 4 times over real cost. Thanks to over engineering (firms like SNC) and to the unions screwing over there own people. Everyone trying to fill pockets on the back of the middle class person. Either way, a cool project.

Back when people were go getters . Would take 10 years now …

@skadill

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, just for the environmental reports to be studied

I prefer driving the canyon to this highway

Hey lets make a Highway. The plan? 20 months.

20 months...too quick? Seems like we may be paying for it now...

Porn music aside this is pretty amazing. I never knew.

What a great time in the world then , lots of work , lots of everything …

@mr.hedgehog420

2 жыл бұрын

there's still lots of work... you are just looking back with rose tinted glasses my friend :)

@trickolas78

7 ай бұрын

@@mr.hedgehog420he was probably drunk 90% of the time

Coquihalla trashed in 20 hours -2021

Yet again mother nature asserts her dominance over this unforgiving mountainous region. Time to abandon this section and focus on upgrading the crowsnest and hwy 1.

@greathodgy22

2 жыл бұрын

That remark shows a lot of insight . . . . . .

Now it will take them 2 years to fix one kilometre

Nice doc, sounds like soft core porn music though.. 😂 lol

Took a day or two for nature to wipe a good chunk of it out

thtz great..... but I think its the only Project that Canada did so Fast..... NOT NOW A DAYS...... Golden B.C. thats 5 KMs gonna take 3 years.... extension is granted..... its not so impressive!!!!

"It will cut a full hour from the journey".... yes ...."and save millions in fuel costs." Ah yeah... no.

now if only they could keep up on winter snow clearing lol

20 months in a rush to build it and now 20 months to fix it after the November floods destroyed it.

I hate this road

@cobycolbertson

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what haters do … have a lovely day.

@MustyBastard

2 жыл бұрын

@@cobycolbertson and now its gone.

@terencechevalier5756

2 жыл бұрын

@@MustyBastard its not gone, its damaged, itll be repaired. Evetyone acting like half of bc got wiped off the map, smh

@MustyBastard

2 жыл бұрын

​@@terencechevalier5756I was being dramtic. Still got the old fappy bird hiway intact that takes for ever.

@terencechevalier5756

2 жыл бұрын

@@MustyBastard lol 😆

When men were actually real men...todays sad

desruction of nature for a highway..now we are paying the price..

Garbage roads and infrastructure