WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government is promising to build an overpass to improve safety at an intersection where 17 people died in a bus crash.

Premier Wab Kinew said Tuesday the overpass is to replace the current at-grade intersection of Highways 1 and 5, where drivers on the latter road have a stop sign as they approach and then must obey a yield sign in the median.

A bus carrying seniors crossed through the intersection in June 2023 and collided with a semi-trailer that had the right of way.

Earlier this year, the provincial Transportation Department suggested keeping the intersection at-grade and banning left turns off Highway 5 to reduce the chance of collisions.

Area residents opposed the plan and called for an overpass. The government said in the summer it would reconsider.

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