Manitoba spends $6.1M to reconstruct portion of Highway 11 in Powerview-Pine Falls

Lauren Scott · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 31, 2025 3:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

A agelong of Manitoba's Highway 11 that municipal officials accidental has been "in precise unsmooth shape" for much than a decennary is receiving $6.1 cardinal successful provincial backing for a road reconstruction project. 

"The highway's successful precise unsmooth shape. The shoulders connected it are gravel shoulders with potholes," says Les Barclay, the politician of Powerview-Pine Falls, located astir 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg adjacent the eastbound enactment of Lake Winnipeg. 

"It's successful the information that it decidedly needs it."

The task involves rebuilding a 1.7-kilometre conception of Highway 11 from Highway 304 westward, a Manitoba authorities release issued Monday says. That determination includes a agelong of road passing done Powerview-Pine Falls.

The planned enactment volition adhd curbing, drawback basins to incorporate water and culverts to redirect travel into the Winnipeg River. Open ditches volition beryllium filled and paved to make sidewalks, which Barclay says volition amended roadworthy information for section pedestrians, drivers and residents. 

He says this task has been connected the books for much than a decade, with aggregate provincial governments passing it down the enactment implicit the years. 

The enactment is expected to statesman this summer. 

"We're excited to get this agelong of road done," Barclay says, thanking the state and Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Lisa Naylor for putting the task successful gear.

"The town, the politician and assembly are precise pleased with getting the enactment done and we look guardant to it starting successful June." 

This caller terms tag, however, is 52 per cent higher than the $4-million outgo estimation included successful the proscription ministry's 2024-25 multi-year concern strategy. 

On Monday afternoon, a provincial spokesperson told CBC that the project costs listed successful the strategy were "preliminary estimates," which tin alteration aft the plan and tendering processes are complete.