The 2008-09 budget provides funding for the continued twinning of Highway 11 between Saskatoon and Prince Albert and completion of twinning of Highways 1 and 16.
Saskatchewan Highways and Infrastructure is responsible for the construction, maintenance and operation of more than 26 000 km of provincial highways throughout Saskatchewan. This network, vast as it is, represents only a small component of the province's total road system.
A total of $63.3 million worth of highway construction projects have been released as part of Phase 1 of Saskatchewan Highways and Infrastructure's 2008 Tender Release.
A total of $29.8 million worth of highway construction projects have been released as part of Phase 2 of Saskatchewan Highways and Infrastructure's 2007-08 Tender Release.
In response to concern expressed by individual contractors, truckers and the Roadbuilders & Heavy Construction Association of Saskatchewan, the Ministry has instituted diesel fuel price adjustment clauses for most major contracts to reduce the risk to the contractors resulting from unusual fuel price increases.