Highway 14 / Sooke Road / West Coast Road

Yes, those are great. What a difference.

Office of the Premier
Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

SOOKE - Premier John Horgan and Claire Trevena, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, will hold a media availability to discuss significant highway improvements in the region.

 

Event date: Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Time: 11:30 a.m.

Location:
17 Mile House Pub
5126 Sooke Rd.
Sooke

 

$86 million of Sooke Road improvements include new four-lane stretch, park-and-ride and wider shoulders

Conceptual plan here: https://www2.gov.bc....plan-1-2500.pdf

Sooke Road has been closed since just before 3PM due to downed wires. A tree fell and knocked down the wires in the 5200-block, where there is no detour.

Sooke Road has been closed since just before 3PM due to downed wires. A tree fell and knocked down the wires in the 5200-block, where there is no detour.

Was actually closed almost 4 hours - I know because I was stuck in it... again.  Heard Premiere was stuck in it as well.... perhaps it will give him a moment to reflect on the need for an alternate route vs. doubling the lanes. 

^ Maybe just trimming the trees back as far as the tallest one?

He was? That’s crazy. I guess there was that announcement regarding an expanded health clinic in Sooke that was made just before the tree came tumbling down.

The Ministry is currently developing a public consultation schedule for the $86 million Highway 14 improvement project announced in April.

My understanding is that there have been subtle changes to the design identified in April.

The highway expansion will be completed by summer of 2022.

Public info session for highway improvements near Sooke

Wednesday, November 27, 2019 8:30 AM
Members of the public are invited to learn more about two safety improvement projects planned for Highway 14 by attending an information session in Sooke on Dec. 3, 2019.

Highlights of the two projects include:

🔹widening and realigning a section of Highway 14 located generally between Glinz Lake Road and Connie Road;
🔹construction of a new intersection and park and ride facility at Gillespie Road; and
🔹construction of wider shoulders and paving approximately 11 kilometres of the highway between Otter Point Road and Woodhaven Road, west of Sooke.

For more details on these projects, and to provide feedback, the public is invited to attend an information session:

Date: Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019

Time: 5-8 p.m.

Location:
Edward Milne Community school
Upper commons area
6218 Sooke Rd.
Sooke

A contentious controlled intersection that was part of the original highway 14 four-laning at a future park-and-ride near 17 Mile has been nixed in favour of an underpass. The highway will now flow freely along the new section. I believe the speed will remain at 60km/h.

Here are the visuals for the new Highway 14 upgrades.

 

An 11km stretch of Highway 14 between Otter Point and Woodhaven roads will be improved with shoulders. This will also include two pull-outs for slower traffic.

 

 

 

 

Here we have the underpass for the park-and-wide and the connection to East Sooke via Gillespie Road. This will replace a controlled intersection that was initially planned at Highway 14 and the new Gillespie Road extension. The old (right) and new (left) designs are below.

 

 

 

 

Park and ride area from a couple of directions (looking west then east).

 

 

 

 

Glinz Lake Road (at the western end of the four-lane) looking west then east.

 

 

what's the last gas station on #14 after you leave sooke/shirley heading towards port renfrew?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 December 2019 - 08:16 AM.

It's a Petro Can at Otter Point Road in Sooke's town centre (not the Otter Point Road end where the shoulder work will begin). There is also a gas station in Renfrew now just as you enter the town.

Highway 14 remains closed just past Jordan River due to a downed tree and hydro lines. The road has yet to reopen and there is no local detour.

Highway 14 remains closed just past Jordan River due to a downed tree and hydro lines. The road has yet to reopen and there is no local detour.

There is a detour, it is the Pacific Marine Circle Route via the Malahat

That's not a local detour.

 

The highway is now open to alternating traffic.

The final design has been released and the project is going to tender.

 

Have a look: https://www2.gov.bc....ects/highway-14

MoTI has a tender out now for work near Port Renfrew.

The location might be here.

 

Location: Highway 14, 3.5 kilometres east of Port Renfrew.

Description: Highway 14, east of Port Renfrew, has been reduced to a single lane since November 2018 due to a slope failure. The project will construct a 220 metre long retaining wall, followed by deep road base repairs along a 500 metre section of Highway 14. 

Edited by Linear Thinker, 01 June 2020 - 07:53 PM.