The RM of Swift Current and Delta Aggregates have announced a partnership to pave the road that leads to the Swift Current Airport.

They will pave from the Highway #4 to the east sides boundaries of the RM, a total of four miles.

The agreement will not only provide safer travelling conditions but will also reduce maintenance costs for the RM.

"The reason for doing this is there is the highest volume of traffic in the RM on that road and the for the maintenance of the road we were out there all the time," said Reeve for the RM of Swift Current Bob Neufeld said. "I would say a grader on an ordinary road is maybe (travelling) down the road every three weeks. Here it is more than once a week, and with the dry conditions like this, the grader wears the rubber off and wears the grader blades down, and it uses diesel fuel, so the cost goes up every day."

Neufeld adds that another reason for them paving the road is because of the dust that occurs on the road.

"Dust is dangerous, and many times when there is truck or vehicle traffic on there especially in a summer like this, when we do not have much moisture, the dust is everywhere," he said. "The dust was the biggest safety concern."

The RM initially had discussed paving the road about five years ago, but Neufeld said it was just too costly back then. Now with a partnership between the RM and Delta the

Tahn Chambers, the area manager for Delta Aggregates talked about why it made sense for the partnership between them and the RM.

"Just because we work with them daily," Chambers said. "The lines of communication are open there, it is our business I mean its what we do so we had an interest that way, and we can sell them on 4 inches of asphalt on the airport road."

Mayor Denis Perrault also weighed in on how having the road paved will be a great thing for the city.

"Having a road going out there that is paved is gonna benefit not just the residents, but it is going to help the user groups that we have that head out that way," Perrault said. "We have races that happen at the airport that is becoming better attended, and hopefully, it will help with the airport traffic as well."

Paving is set to begin in the spring of 2018 and Chambers adds that the paving should take 15 days, depending on the weather and mechanical breakdowns.