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How the Coquihalla highway forever changed Kamloops, the Okanagan | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source


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April 03, 2021 - 7:30 AM
If you re a regular motorist on the Coquihalla Highway, you probably love it for the high quality engineering of the road that allows you to cruise at modern highway speeds, unencumbered by traffic, to and from the Lower Mainland to the Okanagan or Kamloops. 
But you probably have other thoughts during the winter, when metres of snow and ice pile up on the Coquihalla summit, making the roadway below a dangerous and difficult drive.
Actually that can and often does happen virtually any month of the year on the Coquihalla.
British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway has been a blessing and a curse since the first phase opened in May, 1986, just in time for Expo 86 in Vancouver. ....

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