Roadwork scaled back for both highways leading north to Fort McMurray

New passing lanes and other improvements for Highway 881 were postponed in the provincial budget and improvements on nearby Highway 63 have been scaled back.

Thursday’s budget still contains a commitment to finish twinning Highway 63 between Edmonton and Fort McMurray by the fall of 2016, but about $228-million worth of other improvements are off the table.

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