Following a geotechnical assessment, Highway 3 has been deemed safe and reopened to essential travel. Monitoring is in place, and drivers should expect delays and single-lane alternating traffic on portions of the road.
Essential travel is defined as:
- Commercial transporting for goods and supplies;
- Transporting essential goods and supplies;
- Transporting livestock, agricultural or seafood products or related supplies;
- Traveling by agricultural producers, veterinarians and support personnel to provide care for animals;
- Responding to emergencies or critical incidents, including incidents that involve search and rescue operations;
- Evacuating for medical reasons or transporting for urgent medical treatment;
- Highway and infrastructure repairing, maintenance and operation and related activities;
- Transporting essential personnel, including health care workers and emergency responders;
- Returning to a person’s own principal residence;
- Exercising an Aboriginal or treaty right as recognized and affirmed by section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982; and
- Media members travelling through a highway segment for purposes of reporting on the flooding and landslides
Sincerely,
