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Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN
The Yellowhead is not twinned (except at for about 2km at Russell) in Manitoba. They are slowly twinning east of Saskatoon and its presently twinned to just west of the Bradwell turnoff. The rest of the Yellowhead is twinned from Saskatoon to just east of the Jasper National Park entrance in Alberta.
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The MB government recently added a lot of passing lanes for the stretch of Hwy 16 from where it meets the Trans Canada to Minnedosa. This has helped most traffic issues, and that stretch of highway probably does not warrant twinning anytime soon, except around some towns.
Most eastbound traffic from Edmonton/Saskatoon will take Saskatchewan's Hwy 11 to the TCH rather than 16 east of Saskatoon. Much safer, although this adds about 45 km to the journey, but generally higher speeds on twinned highways helps keep the time to travel that distance about the same.
The only major improvements Hwy 16 in Manitoba would need is to repave the old crumbling sections west of Minnedosa and an interchange at Hwy 16 (a lot of major accidents there this past summer)