Engagement Summary

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure invited the public to offer feedback on potential improvements for the intersection of Highway 1 and Balmoral Road, 10 kilometres east of Sorrento.

We were seeking input on options to improve safety at this intersection which had experienced a higher than average rate of collisions.

Engagement Timeframe

June 26 to July 10, 2019

Input Received

• 182 people attended the open house in Blind Bay
• 116 online forms were returned
• There was strong demand for acceleration lanes to be included in the project design.

Input leads to action:

Input from the public engagement helped the ministry in selecting a design to improve safety at the Highway 1 – Balmoral Road intersection. The new intersection reconfiguration was completed in fall 2019 and has right-turn-in, right turn-out and left-turn-in movements from Highway 1 on Balmoral Road, with a protected left-turn lane. Based on feedback from the public engagement, the ministry has incorporated acceleration lanes into the design.