Construction began today on the Route 1 gateway project - the largest financial highway undertaking in New Brunswick history. Transportation Minister Denis Landry, New Brunswick Southwest MP Greg Thom .....
Major bridge work and paving on the Pointe-du-Ch�ne Road has been completed on schedule. Participating in a ribbon-cutting were, from left: Ren� Clements, past president, Pointe-du-Ch�ne local service .....
The provincial government is investing significantly in new transportation projects in Kent County with more construction activity to come. Premier Shawn Graham outlined nearly $24 million in transpo .....
Repair crews are making progress removing the bridge deck as Phase 2 of renovations to the Princess Margaret Bridge in Fredericton continues. This update came during a briefing with officials from the .....
Major highway improvements are being undertaken this summer in the upper Miramichi and Northumberland County. Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Human Resource Minister Rick Brewer released deta .....
Motorists in the Saint John region will have to adjust to a major traffic pattern change during the next three weeks. The eastbound lanes of Route 1 at the One Mile House interchange will be closed st .....
Motorists are again reminded that the Princess Margaret Bridge in Fredericton is fully closed until Sunday, Aug. 8. The structure was closed on Monday, July 5. The closure is required for the removal .....
The provincial government has awarded a $3-million contract to Concreate USL Ltd. to replace the Durham Bridge (Nashwaak River Bridge No. 4) 25 km northeast of Fredericton. The structure will be close .....
The provincial government has awarded a tender to advance construction of the 10.7 km Welsford-Nerepis bypass along Route 7. Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Energy Minister Jack Keir made the .....
Motorists may expect less inconvenience this summer now that the closure period for the Princess Margaret Bridge has been shortened by two weeks. The bridge will now be closed from Monday, July 5 to S .....
The provincial government has awarded several contracts to improve highways and bridges in southern Victoria County and issued tenders for other projects in the area.
The provincial government has awarded a tender for the construction of a new ferry linking White Head Island and Grand Manan. The $5-million investment was announced by Transportation Minister Denis L .....
The provincial government is investing in 29 km of new wildlife fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway (Route 2). The Department of Transportation has issued a tender for the work and installation wil .....
Eleven tenders for paving and road improvements in northeastern New Brunswick, valued at nearly $12 million, have been awarded by the provincial government. Transportation Minister Denis Landry and We .....
The provincial government has awarded a contract valued at more than $514,000 to HBH Paving Ltd. of Island View to repave the Westmorland Street Bridge.
Officials from Uganda are visiting to learn about the province's application of their award-winning asset management system. The visitors from the Ugandan National Roads Authority are meeting with Dep .....
Construction begins today on a new bridge in Kings County. Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced that Modern Construction (1983) Ltd. of Moncton has won a contract to replace the Erbs Cove Br .....
The provincial government has awarded about $4.7 million in contracts for phases 2 and 3 of a new Department of Transportation maintenance facility in St. Stephen.
Construction begins today on a new bridge in Pointe-du-Ch�ne. Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Business New Brunswick Minister Victor Boudreau announced on Saturday, May 1, that a tender has b .....
The provincial government has signed a $580-million public-private-partnership with Dexter Developer General Partnership that will see the Mackay Highway expanded to six lanes and construction of the .....
A new cable ferry for the crossing at Grand Bay-Westfield, the Henry Nase, was christened today. The $4-million vessel was named after Col. Henry Nase, a member of the King's American Regiment .....
The provincial government and the City of Fredericton are urging motorists, employers and residents to start preparing now to avoid lengthy traffic delays during this summer's bridge construction proj .....
The provincial government has selected the Dexter Construction Co. Ltd. as the preferred proponent for the Route 1 Gateway Project. Premier Shawn Graham made the announcement.
The Government of New Brunswick has announced a $77.3-million contract for Phase 2 of the Princess Margaret Bridge rehabilitation project in Fredericton. The bridge will be closed to traffic from Sat .....
Grand Manan Adventure will be the name of a new, 82-car ferry to link Grand Manan with the mainland. The announcement was made today by Premier Shawn Graham, Transportation Minister Denis Landr .....
The provincial and federal governments are investing a total of $9.53 million in seven highway improvement projects. The announcement was made on Jan. 30 by Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Na .....
The provincial and federal governments are making joint investments in the replacement of the Upper Stone Ridge covered bridge and in the upgrading of Route 109. Transportation Minister Denis Landry a .....
The provincial government will invest $439.3 million in transportation infrastructure. Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced a third consecutive record capital budget in the legislative assem .....
A new international bridge, the third at St. Stephen / Calais, as well as a new port of entry for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) have officially opened.
Information services to help inform the travelling public about road and weather conditions have been expanded by the Department of Transportation. Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced toda .....
Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Local Government Minister Bernard Leblanc participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of a newly constructed bridge on Route 132 tow .....
The start of construction for the 10.7-kilometre Route 7 bypass between Welsford and Nerepis was marked today by Energy Minister Jack Keir, Tourism and Parks Minister Stuart Jamieson, Veterans Affairs .....
The completion of construction and opening of the Tracadie-Sheila to Six Roads bypass project was marked today by Premier Shawn Graham, Transportation Minister Denis Landry, and Veterans Affairs Minis .....
A ceremony marking the official opening of the new $6.55-million St. Nicholas River Bridge #1 took place today on Route 470, just west of Rexton. Premier Shawn Graham and Transportation Minister Denis .....
The installation of more than 27 km of wildlife fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway between Meductic and Woodstock was marked today by Transportation Minister Denis Landry and officials from Brun-W .....
A new bridge on the Trans-Canada Highway will be open to traffic as early as Monday. It will replace the Memramcook River #5 Bridge (north), built in 1960.
The details on nine contracts worth more than $10.7 to improve road and highway infrastructure in Restigouche and Madawaska counties were provided today by Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Res .....
There are 86 new, environmentally friendly school buses operating in the province. Transportation Minister Denis Landry, Education Minister Roland Hach�, and Environment Minister Rick Miles made the a .....
The provincial government will accept the recommendation of a community working group to continue ferry services in Belleisle Bay and Gagetown, Premier Shawn Graham and Transportation Minister Denis L .....
New Saint John Transit Commission Operations Centre opens
Dignitaries participated in the opening of the new Saint John Transit Commission Operations Centre. The $23.5 million facility was made possible through funding by the governments of New Brunswick and .....
The beginning of construction for Phase 2 of the One Mile House Interchange was marked today by a site visit from Transportation Minister Denis Landry, Saint John MP Rodney Weston, Tourism and Parks M .....
A new signage program welcoming travellers to the capital region has been unveiled by the Department of Transportation in partnership with the New Brunswick Provincial Capital Commission. From left: T .....
Construction to rebuild and re-pave a stretch of Route 3 in the Village of Harvey is almost complete. Transportation Minister Denis Landry recently joined municipal officials to view the improvements .....
Repairs are being made to a 100-year-old covered bridge in Rusagonis that is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Transportation Minister Denis Landry He announced that the department is investing more .....
Highway infrastructure contracts in southwestern Miramichi valued at more than $8.6 million were announced by Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Human Resources Minister Rick Brewer. From left: .....
Seventeen road and highway projects for Greater Saint John and Kings County were announced today by Transportation Minister Denis Landry, Tourism and Parks Minister Stuart Jamieson and Saint John East .....
The provincial government is investing more than $7.5 million to improve transportation infrastructure in Charlotte County. From left: Transportation Minister Denis Landry; Fisheries Minister Rick Dou .....
Construction projects worth more than $50 million for southeast New Brunswick were announced today by Transportation Minister Denis Landry. Landry made the announcement during a site visit where $6.3 .....
The provincial government is investing $5.2 million in seven highway projects throughout southern York and Sunbury counties. Transportation Minister Denis Landry made the announcement while visiting a .....
Transportation Minister arrives at the Village Historique Acadien
Transportation Minister Denis Landry, left, makes a spectacular arrival on board an old-fashioned, hand-powered railway trolley. He is accompanied by Roger Boucher, curator at the Village Historique A .....
Miramichi is receiving new transit buses as the result of an investment of more than $421,000 by the federal government. Ottawa is providing the assistance through its Public Transit Capital Trust Fun .....
Details concerning several road construction projects in the Chaleur region were released by Transportation Minister Denis Landry at the department's maintenance division outside Bathurst. From left: .....
A new, environmentally friendly asphalt technology is being used on five paving projects across New Brunswick, Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced today. He released details of the departme .....
The provincial government has bought a state-of-the-art vehicle to apply traffic marking paint in an environmentally friendly way. Transportation Minister Denis Landry, in making the announcement toda .....
A number of events are scheduled in New Brunswick from April 27 to May 3 in recognition of National Rail Safety Week, Transportation Minister Denis Landry has announced. The events include crossing bl .....
Transportation Minister Denis Landry (left) and Education Minister Kelly Lamrock visited crews from Restigouche Construction working at the site of the Route 8 Marysville-Nashwaak bypass on Tuesday, F .....
Greenhouse-gas emissions will be reduced in the province as the result of a new project being supported by the New Brunswick Climate Action Fund, Environment Minister Roland Hach� announced today. Fr .....
A new, twinned 23-kilometre section of Route 1 officially opened in St. Stephen, marking another step toward the completion of the first new border crossing to the United States in Atlantic Canada in .....
The provincial government has launched a strategy to use new and advanced technology to make New Brunswick's transportation system safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly. Transportat .....
Traffic is now moving on the new northeast ramp of the Westmorland Street Bridge. Premier Shawn Graham, Transportation Minister Denis Landry, Education Minister Kelly Lamrock, and T.J. Burke, minister .....
Route 1 will be entirely upgraded to a four-lane highway by 2014. The provincial and federal governments announced today that the last stretch of Route 1 will be twinned and improved by that year at t .....
Moncton students will be travelling on New Brunswick�s first hybrid school bus when it goes into operation on Wednesday. From left: Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Environment Minister Roland .....
A major investment in northern New Brunswick highways is being made this summer by the Government of New Brunswick. Transportation Minister Denis Landry visited three of about 30 planned highway const .....
Federal and provincial officials broke ground on the first phase of the Nashwaak/Marysville Bypass on Route 8 today. An excavator turned the sod in the Fredericton neighbourhood of Marysville where t .....
Rural roads on the Miramichi and in southeastern New Brunswick are benefitting from a new distributor truck and tank used in the provincial government's chipseal program.
About $22 million will be invested in improving roads in the Miramichi region this year, Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced today. Landry was in Miramichi where he witnessed paving work on .....
Drivers in New Brunswick are being urged to "think moose" this year as part of the government's continuing effort to reduce moose-vehicle collisions in the province. From left: Transportation Minister .....
New Brunswick's school bus fleet will be cleaner and greener in the fall, thanks to a $6.7-million investment in 85 new buses. Pictured: Transportation Minister Denis Landry conducting a white handke .....
Transportation Minister Denis Landry surveys flood damage to Route 105 in Maugerville, where sheets of asphalt have lifted from the road and come to rest in a nearby field. Landry inspected damage to .....
Tenders for an additional 47 linear kilometres of wildlife fencing on Route 7 will be called in late April. Transportation Minister Denis Landry, right, and Supply and Services Minister Jack Keir anno .....
The Department of Transportation has been recognized for the MS Grand Manan V's participation in the United States Coast Guard's Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue (AMVER) System. Transportatio .....
A new interchange will be built from Route 15 to provide direct access to the Scoudouc Industrial Park. Pictured: an artist's rendering of the interchange.
A new type of wide tires that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by transport trucks can now operate on certain New Brunswick highways under special permit. New generation single-wide tires benefit the e .....
Environment Minister Roland Hach� announced that investments from the New Brunswick Climate Action Fund will support environment-friendly initiatives proposed by the Department of Transportation and S .....
Transportation Minister Denis Landry gets a lesson in how to operate a snowplow from Ken Thompson, one of the Department's Operator-Instructors. Landry recently visited the department's new intensive .....
Premier attends official opening Premier Shawn Graham checks out the inside of a Brun-Way plow at the official opening of the Trans-Canada Highway Project. The $543.8 million project was constructed .....
New Brunswick reached a milestone today with the official opening of the last 98 kilometres of the four-lane Trans-Canada Highway (Route 2) in the province. The entire 516 kilometres of highway from t .....
Don't speed in construction and school zones in New Brunswick. If you do, you could face a minimum fine of $280. The stiffer fines are part of government's plan to improve highway safety in New Brunsw .....
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the development of Canada's Atlantic Gateway has been signed by the four Atlantic Provinces and the federal government. Pictured: New Brunswick Transportation M .....
A new exit ramp connecting Route 1 to Ashburn Lake Road in Saint John will be built, Premier Shawn Graham announced today. From left: Saint John Mayor Norm McFarlane, Premier Shawn Graham, Transportat .....
The City of Moncton will receive more than $2.66 million in federal funding for public transit system improvements under the Canada-New Brunswick Agreement on Public Transit. From left: Fundy Royal MP .....
Highway construction on New Brunswick's National Highway System will start this year. These highway projects will be financed through a $414 million cost-shared agreement over the next 10 years. Pict .....
New Brunswick's knowledge industry has recognized the Department of Transportation's innovative effort to better manage its vast network of roads and bridges. Transportation Minister Denis Landry acce .....
Fredericton will receive $1.9 million in federal funding to improve its public transit system. Transportation Minister Denis Landry and Mike Allen, MP for Tobique-Mactaquac, made the announcement tod .....
A ferry will operate four times daily year-round between the island of Grand Manan and the mainland, starting Saturday, Nov. 18. Premier Shawn Graham joined Transportation Minister Denis Landry and F .....
Environment Minister Roland Hach�, left, and Transportation Minister Denis Landry check out a fuel-efficient vehicle. The New Brunswick government is implementing a new green vehicle policy that is ex .....
The official opening of the Miramichi Bypass took place today. From left, Andy L�g�re, District Engineer; Bill Fraser, MLA-Miramichi-Bay du Vin; Public Safety Minister John Foran; Transportation Minis .....
The official opening of 29 kilometres of the new four-lane Trans-Canada Highway between Pokiok and Longs Creek took place today. From left: Transportation Minister Denis Landry, Mike Allen, MP for Tob .....
Transportation Minister Denis Landry joined the MRDC Operations Corporation today to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Fredericton-Moncton Highway, the largest highway construction .....
A new five-year collective agreement was officially signed today between Local 1190 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the provincial government.
Denis Landry signs the register to become Minister of Transportation, in the presence of Lt.-Gov. Herm�n�gilde Chiasson, Premier Shawn Graham, and Clerk of the Executive Council Maurice Bernier.
The bridge built to replace the village bridge on St. Peter Avenue in Bathurst has been named in honour of New Brunswick veterans. Premier Bernard Lord was joined today for the ceremony by Transporta .....
Construction of a new maintenance depot south of the Canterbury interchange at Meductic will begin soon. Transportation Minister Paul Robichaud and Brun-Way Highways Operations Inc. made the announcem .....
The York Library Region began operating a newly constructed bookmobile this week after receiving $135,000 in provincial funding. Post-Secondary Education and Training Minister Jody Carr and Transporta .....
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Lord committed to $400 million in highway construction and rehabilitation projects on the province's national highway system. The 10-year commitment will be c .....
A ceremony celebrating community and heritage marked the official opening of the Gunningsville Bridge, which spans the Petitcodiac River between Moncton and Riverview, on Nov. 19.
The Province of New Brunswick and the Government of Canada recently launched the final phase of construction for the twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick.
Premier Bernard Lord and several cabinet ministers held a news conference in Alma today, where the premier urged truckers to halt their current protest before the economy of Atlantic Canada is serious .....
The Department of Transportation, in partnership with Sunbury Transport, is conducting a pilot project to evaluate the operation of long combination vehicles on specific sections of four-lane highways .....
Transportation Minister Paul Robichaud and Finance Minister Jeannot Volp� announced today the government's plans to complete the four-lane Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) in New Brunswick by 2007.