YRB North Peace
Yellowhead Road &
Bridge
(North Peace) Ltd. was formed in 1996 after winning the contract
tendered in 1996 to maintain the highways and bridges in the North
Peace Contract Area (Service Area #22). The company commenced
maintenance of this area on May 17, 1996. YRB (North Peace) was
successful in retaining the maintenance contract re-tendered in 2004.
Our current contract was renewed on May 17, 2004 and is 10 years in
duration, expiring on May 16, 2014.
As with all other YRB companies, Yellowhead Road & Bridge
(North Peace) Ltd. is 100% employee-owned. All the employ-owners take
great pride in the work they do maintaining highways and bridges in the
locale where they and their families live.
The North Peace contract area contains the main city of Fort St. John,
as well as the Village of Fort Nelson and the municipality of
Hudson’s Hope. YRB (North Peace) has maintenance
establishments in Fort St. John, Hudson’s Hope, Rose Prairie,
Cecil Lake and Fort Nelson as well as minor facilities in Clayhurst and
Buick Creek. The contract area boundaries are generally the north shore
of the Peace River (the Clayhurst Bridge is not in the contract area),
and specifically the south end of the Taylor Bridge on Highway 97 to
the south, the Northwest Territories border on Highway 77 to the north,
the Alberta border to the east and the south end of the
Hudson’’s Hope Bridge on Highway 29 to the west. A
unique feature of this contract area is that the bulk of the Alaska
Highway (north of km 133 except for the 6 km portion of arterial
highway through Fort Nelson) is still maintained by Public Works
Canada, and is therefore not the responsibility of YRB (North Peace).
The contract area contains approximately 3,500 kms of road, including
Highways 29, 77 and 97, as well as 76 bridges.
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