2-year construction project set to begin on busy Vancouver Island highway

Construction will soon begin on improvements to Vancouver Island’s Highway 4, the only route to the popular tourist destinations of Tofino and Ucluelet.

The project at Kennedy Hill is slated to begin in April and finish by the summer of 2020, and will involve late-night closures in both directions on the two-lane highway.

Janelle Irwin, deputy director for the South Coast region with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, says the closures are necessitated by the ambitious nature of the project, which