The full project scope encompasses 464 single-lane kilometres of work, roughly the distance between Regina and Medicine Hat.

[12] Former Highways and Infrastructure Minister Wayne Elhard discussed expanding the Government's role in the next phase of the development project.

The traffic on Hwy 1 is expected to have an average of 10,140 to 11,210 vehicles per day on the west and east side of the proposed interchange in five years.

It will become part of the long term bypass route around Regina, and will accommodate future growth of the city to a population of 300,000.

The major roads would be constructed by the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure and they would be supported by a $7 million payment by the City of Regina.

[26] The first overpass of the Trans-Canada Highway section of the bypass was partially finished and into operation on July 27, 2017, in the town of Balgonie.

[27] The second overpass of this section of the bypass was partially finished and put into operation on August 10, 2017, in the town of White City.

[32] The first concept of a bypass, in 2013, was considerably smaller in scope and focused only on a route to divert traffic south of the city.

A decision was made to combine these individual components into one project, the Regina Bypass, with a cost estimate (construction only) of $1.2 billion.

including Graham, the Broda Group, Brandt, Clifton Associates, Crestview Chrysler, Fraser Strategy, Inland Aggregates, Lonesome Prairie, Urban Systems, and Noremac.

[37] The proposal was studying the impact the new roadway will have on protected species of fauna in Saskatchewan such as the burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia), loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), Sprague's pipit {Anthus spragueii}, peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis), monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens).

Flora of Saskatchewan which may be impacted would be the prairie ragwort (Senecio plattensis) and Geyer's onion (Allium geyeri).

The Presbyterian Indian Residential School Cemetery is also located in this vicinity north of Dewdney Avenue and east of Pinkie Road.