Nasogaluak, mayor of the Northwest Territories hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, will drive down 120 kilometres of brand-new, two-lane, all-weather gravel to Inuvik. Replacing a seasonal ice road, the new highway is the country’s first permanent link to its Arctic coast. After it’s done, he’ll join an official motorcade heading back up the road to Tuk. The $300-million road will cross a rolling landscape of tundra and lakes with many stream crossings and bridges. It would also like a road reaching up the Mackenzie Valley to open that region for tourism and development.

Source: National Post November 12, 2017 15:00 UTC