Route 389 Improvement Program
Province: Quebec
City/Region: Baie-Comeau, Quebec to the Labrador border
Image Credit: MTMD
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Project Rank
Project End: 2028
Project Type: Highway
Industry Sector: Transportation
Project Amount: $738 million
Date of Completion: 2028
Funding Source: Public
Federal Funding: $$183 million (New Building Canada Fund, Provincial-Territorial Infrastructure Component—National and Regional Projects)
Provincial Funding: $555 million
LEED Status: Certified
Previous Rankings
| 2025 | 91 |
| 2024 | 81 |
| 2023 | 90 |
| 2022 | 89 |
| 2021 | 90 |
| 2020 | 92 |
| 2019 | 90 |
| 2018 | 88 |
| 2016 | 91 |
| 2015 | 96 |
| 2014 | 94 |
About The Project
Route 389 connects the town of Baie-Comeau and the border of Newfoundland and Labrador over a distance of 570 kilometres. The program is divided into five separate projects carried out in parallel: Project A-from Fire Lake to Fermont; Project B-from Baie-Comeau to Manic-2; Project C-north of Manic-5, from kilometre 240 to kilometre 254; Project D-from Manic-2 to the north of Manic-3; and Project E-from north of Manic-3 to Manic-5.
Project Owner: Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable
Contractor: Dexter Québec (project A, section 3 and project C); cooperation agreement with the Innu Takuaikan Uashat mak Mani-utenam Council (project A, sections 1 and 2) Groupe Alfred Boivin (project B)
Other Key Players: BPR/AXOR Experts-Conseils Consortium (planning and specifications north of Manic-5); Roche-TDA Consortium, in conjunction with Inspec-Sol (GHD) (Environmental assessment); WSP (route design work); AECOM (consulting engineer); Englobe/ AtkinsRéalis (quality control and materials engineering-project A, section 3); Norda Stelo/CIMA+/Tetra Tech (work monitoring-project A, section 3); Stantec (design/planning engineer)
Legal: Lavery
Key Players
Key Players’ recognize the organizations whose work, knowledge, and expertise go into constructing and delivering the significant projects that make our annual list.
Gold (15-19 Projects)
Silver (10-14 Projects)
Bronze (5-9 Projects)
- ACCIONA Infrastructure Canada
- Accuracy
- Alstom
- Associated Engineering
- Black & McDonald
- Blake, Cassels & Graydon
- Cartel Communication Systems
- COWI
- Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
- DECAST Ltd.
- DIALOG
- EBC Inc.
- FlatironDragados
- GeoVerra
- HDR
- Hemmera
- Infrata
- Kasian
- Lakeland Consulting Inc.
- Lavery, de Billy
- LRI Engineering
- McMillan LLP
- Montrose Environmental
- Mott MacDonald
- Mulvey & Banani
- NORR Architects & Engineers Ltd.
- Osler
- Parkin Architects Ltd.
- Plenary Americas
- R.V. Anderson
- STRABAG Inc.
- Tiree
- Torys

