Yellowknife Highway

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Highway 3, known more commonly as the Yellowknife Highway, but also the Great Slave Highway, connects Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to Highway 1, just south of the Mackenzie River ferry crossing. Built in 1967, the highway is now completely paved and realigned after years of work concluded in 2006.

The highway also connects with Behchoko, formerly Rae-Edzo and Fort Providence.

Plans were approved early in 2005 for the construction of a bridge across the Mackenzie River to replace the present ferry service (May-October) and ice bridge (October to March). Transportation is interrupted in the spring when the ice bridge deteriorates but there is too much ice in the river for the ferry to operate safely.

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