The Regina Bypass is a four-lane twinned highway connector road in Regina, Saskatchewan. The route connects Highway 1 (the Trans-Canada Highway) with Highway 11, forming a partial ring road around the city of Regina. Phase one, east of Regina from Balgonie to Highway 33, finished on-schedule in October 2017. The remainder was finished October 2019. The bypass opened to traffic on October 29, 2019. The project, slated to cost $1.8 billion overall, is the largest single infrastructure project in the history of Saskatchewan. The bypass is owned on behalf of the public by the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure with design, construction, operations, and long-term maintenance performed by the Regina Bypass Partners. Scope The full project scope encompasses 464 single-lane kilometres of work, roughly the distance between Regina and Medicine Hat. It consists of: 12 overpasses, 40 km of new four-lane highway, 20 km of resurfaced four-lane highway, 55 km of new service roads, and Twinning of about 5 km of Highway 6. The project is being built in three distinct sections: "Area 1", which will upgrade and extend the city's existing Pinkie Road into a full connection between Highway 1 and Highway 11 in the west of the city; "Area 2", which will construct a new route south of the city between Highway 1 and Highway 33; and "Area 3", which will complete the connection from Highway 33 back to Highway 1 in the east of the city adjacent to Tower Road, as well as further upgrades to the existing route of Highway 1 easterly to Highway 46. The route runs west of the Regina International Airport. History The Regina Bypass serves as a replacement bypass route for the existing Regina Ring Road. The Ring Road was originally constructed as an urban bypass route around Regina's city centre, however urban growth since Ring Road's construction effectively turned it into an arterial road with high traffic congestion along some portions of the route. Plans for the Pinkie Road segment of the route were announced in 2009, with the remainder of the bypass loop finalized in 2014. Pinkie Road will be a primary access highway with access points for the Global Transportation Hub (GTH). The project is undertaken by the City of Regina, Sherwood No. 159 rural municipality (RM) Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (MHI) and Transport Canada to provide an Intermodal freight transport center and the road infrastructure between two