Dozens of people gathered outside the B.C. Legislature Wednesday to protest a proposed Malahat Highway expansion along Goldstream Park, saying it would interfere with the surrounding salmon population.

In 2018, the provincial government proposed safety improvements to Highway 1 to create safer travel between south and north Vancouver Island. With more than 25,000 daily commuters on that road, the government wants to improve safety conditions to reduce road closures, especially from crashes.

Part of that project would involve widening a 1.7-kilometre corridor between Finlayson Arm Road and the entrance of the Goldstream Campground. The highway would remain as one lane in each direction but would come with wider paved shoulders, a roadside barrier, a median barrier, and improved pedestrian

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