Editor’s Note: A media bus tour of the new Route 8 Marysville Bypass will take place on Thursday, July 24, beginning at 10 a.m.
The Honourable Keith Ashfield, MP for Fredericton, and the Honourable Claude Williams, NB Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure will participate along with local MPs and MLAs, Tom McGinn, executive director of the NB Road Builders Association, Jean‑Marc Picard, executive director of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association, as well as highway project managers for the department.
Members of the media are asked to meet the tour bus in the parking lot at Marysville Place, 20 McGloin Street, Fredericton, at least a half hour before departure time. A parking area will be available at Marysville Place. The tour will take approximately two hours return trip. There will be three or four arranged stops along the new highway for photographs and video footage.
To reserve seating on the bus, please contact the NB Department of Transportation and Infrastructure at 506-453-5634.
Media contacts:
Vincent Rabault
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, Ottawa
613-943-1838
Transport Canada,
Media Relations, Ottawa
613-993-0055
Judy Cole
Communications
NB Department of Transportation and Infrastructure
506-453-5634
