Marine Bypass Road will be chip-sealed when crews roll into town to extend the runway at Mike Zubko Airport, says deputy premier Diane Archie.
Archie committed the GWNT to the work after being asked about it by Inuvik-Twin Lakes MLA Lesa Semmler during legislature proceedings on Oct. 14.
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She also cautioned that because there is no paving equipment in Inuvik or the surrounding communities, contractors would have to be brought in from Whitehorse.
In her memberSA国际影视传媒檚 statement, Semmler noted both the importance of the gravel roadway to community functions and the hazards the dust and mud from its usage wreak on the community.
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Semmler also used her member statement to praise the recent work on widening the roadway, which Northwind Industries completed over the summer for a contract of $3.1 million.
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Work on extending the runway at Mike Zubko Airport resumed at the end of September after a deal was reached between the GNWT, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and the GwichSA国际影视传媒檌n Development Corporation to award the contract to a partnership of Northwind and E. Gruben Transport. The contract for constructing the new runway is worth $41.2 million.
