Earlier this year the City of Swift Current received money from the Government of Saskatchewan to help with the upgrading of an intersection.

The City received $100,000 from the province's Traffic Safety Fund Grant to complete the Battleford Trail and Central Avenue Intersection Realignment.

Mobile Paving provided a quote for the surface construction of $570,033 with additional expenses of $130,000, bringing the total cost of the project around $700,000.

"The $575,000 is the construction. There are some engineering costs, in order to satisfy the grant, there's a report that has to get written at the end of how we approve traffic safety," Mitch Minken, General Manager of Infrastructure and Operations, explained. "Some SaskTel cables, a natural gas line, and a storm line that have to get moved, so that's all covered under that additional 130,000."

Minken said that they are placing all the base materials this fall.

"There's been some work been already started and will be going on now over the next while," he said. "Place all the base dirt, build up the ditch on the side for where the new roadbed is going to be, and then that will be the end of the work for this fall."

Construction will start up once again in the spring of 2020.