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Hwy reopens at rock slide

UPDATE: 10:30 p.m.

Highway 1 reopened to single-lane, alternating traffic about 5:45 p.m., DriveBC reports.


UPDATE: 2:45 p.m.

DriveBC has revised its estimated time of reopening at a rock slide on Highway 1 near Spences Bridge.

It had been hoped to open the highway by 3 p.m., but that time has now been pushed back to 6 p.m.


ORIGINAL: 11:45 a.m.

The Trans-Canada Highway is expected to reopen this afternoon, following a large rockslide on Thursday near Spences Bridge.

The highway has been closed six kilometres east of the community since Thursday afternoon, when massive chunks broke free of a rock face and came crashing down on the highway, striking a tractor-trailer.

DriveBC reports an estimated time of reopening as 3 p.m.

Meanwhile, traffic has been detoured via Highway 12 to Lytton, Highway 8 to Ashcroft and Highway 5 to Kamloops.



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