Quick Facts

• Huntsville-North Bay Corridor (# of vehicles)
  • Average Daily Traffic Volume 9,300
  • Summer Average Volume 11,400
• Average Daily Truck Volume 1,367
  • Daily value of goods carried: $44 million
• Distance from Huntsville to Powassan
  • 93 km
  • 56 km-Twinning (build 2 new lanes parallel to existing highway and convert to 4 lanes)
  • 37 km-New Alignment (build all new 4 lanes, by-passing existing highway)
• New by-passes to be constructed around communities of Trout Creek, South River, Sundridge, and Emsdale
• Over 350 properties will be acquired
• 16 new interchanges
• 54 new bridges
• 1.7 million cubic metres of rock excavation
• 10.5 million cubic metres of earth excavation
• 4.6 million tonnes of granular material
• 500,000 tonnes of asphalt
• Planning and environment approvals initiated in 1988 and completed in 1995.