The new four-lane alignment from Sault Ste. Marie to Echo Bay is now open, I believe, bypassing the crowded, slow and dangerous two-lane stretch through the Garden River Indian Reserve and moving the TCH's route through the Sault from the Trunk Road up to the Second Line. The new route joins the divided stretch in the Bar River flats that was completed around about 1975.
It would certainly be great for the economy of the area if the divided highway could be extended to Sudbury and via the 400/69 to Toronto. But that has been promised for decades and nothing much has ever happened on Highway 17. It took 30 years to negotiate the new route through the Indian Reserve.
It's unlikely that the wee little segment in Whiteshell Park in Manitoba would be twinned since it is basically a controlled access road anyway, with a separate adjacent secondary highway that takes the local traffic. It's not a significant bottleneck. Land acquisition there would be difficult and expensive.
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