Traffic is expected to be extremely heavy on Highway 4 to the West Coast this long weekend, where ongoing closures at Cameron Lake to repair wildfire damage have led to waits that can be many hours long.
Port Alberni’s Cathy Ollech rushed to get into a long line of traffic on Highway 4 Thursday morning. Then she set up a lawn chair, to wait an hour and half in a kilometres-long backlog of cars.
Ollech was one of thousands trying to get through the Cameron Lake stretch of Highway 4 Thursday, ahead of the bulk of holiday traffic that’s expected tothis long weekend, and face long delays due to the stabilizing of this rock bluff that was damaged by the Cameron Bluffs wildfire. So to allow for increased long weekend traffic, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure planned to open Highway 4 to single lane alternating traffic from 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3, to 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8. It’s a move intended to reduce long line ups.
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