British Columbia Solicits Firms to Rebuild Flood-Hit Highways
- One river carved out a new path, wiping out a major road
- Province vows to rebuild more climate-resilient infrastructure
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British Columbia has begun soliciting companies to help rebuild highways ravaged by one of the worst floods on record in the western Canadian province even as impending storms threaten to hinder recovery efforts.
The province is seeking requests for qualifications from construction and engineering firms to reconstruct two heavily damaged roads, Highway 8 and Highway 1 -- the latter a part of the Trans-Canada, the country’s main coast-to-coast highway system.