ManitobaConstruction of an overpass at the intersection where a bus crash killed 17 seniors two years ago is scheduled to start in 2027, the province of Manitoba said Thursday.Project anticipated to take 2.5 years to build once construction starts, province saysCBC News · Posted: Nov 20, 2025 4:59 PM EST | Last Updated: 6 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.A drone photo shows the highway intersection the day after a crash near Carberry, Man., that killed 17 people. (Tyson Koschik/CBC)Construction of an overpass at the intersection where a bus crash killed 17 people two years ago is scheduled to start in 2027, the province of Manitoba said Thursday.The new overpass, which the Manitoba government promised in its throne speech this week, at the current at-grade intersection of Highway 5 and the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry is expected to take about 2½ years to complete, the government said in a news release.The announcement that the province selected the overpass for the intersection where the deadly 2023 crash happened was celebrated by locals, who fiercely opposed the government’s initial proposal — an intersection configuration that would have required merges and U-turns to get onto the busy Trans-Canada.A semi-trailer truck and a bus full of seniors on their way to a casino collided at the intersection on June 15, 2023, killing 17 people. The other eight people on the bus were seriously injured.After the tragedy, some area residents and Carberry’s town council called for an overpass at the intersection, but the government initially said it wasn’t an option because current traffic volumes aren’t high enough. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says that’s changed.”When we’re talking about highways 1 and 5, and you think about all that history that’s been lived just in the past few years, it’s not like any other intersection,” Kinew, standing with Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Lisa Naylor, told community members at an event at the Carberry Community Memorial Hall on Thursday.”I want to thank the minister for being understanding of that, as well as the people who work in her department, because as you know, they came forward with an earlier recommendation that they believed in and thought was going to be the right path forward. “But after hearing from your perspective, hearing the voices of other folks in the surrounding region, you know, it was really important for me to say, ‘Well, we’ve got to get this right.'”‘Over the moon’ after province promises overpass at site of deadly 2023 Carberry bus crash: residentManitoba throne speech promises supervised consumption site by January, overpass at site of deadly bus crashThe throne speech committed to starting the design work for the overpass next year. Kinew previously said it would cost “north of $100 million.”On Thursday, the premier said the rest of this fiscal year will be used to lock in next steps for design. Beginning next year, work will be done on engineering and acquiring the required land surrounding the highway.”So if we hit all those timelines, you know, heading into 2029, 2030, the overpass should be open, should be functional,” Kinew said, and segments of the overpass could be open earlier than that.
Construction of overpass at site of deadly bus crash near Carberry, Man., expected to start in 2027
