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Parks Canada is helping make Highway 93 a little safer, installing two new emergency satellite phones along the highway in Kootenay National Park.
There is currently no cell coverage or WiFi along most of the 105-kilometre stretch of Highway 93 South between Castle Mountain and Radium Hot Springs.
No cell service or wifi in the park creates challenges for emergency communications along the highway, which has seen an increase in traffic over the last year due to scheduled detours caused by closures of the Kicking Horse Canyon Project on the Trans Canada Highway east of Golden, which has rerouted traffic through Radium…
