Several intersections on the Perimeter Highway will be seeing change over the next while.

A diamond interchange is coming to PTH 100 and PTH 3 near Oak Bluff at McGillivray Boulevard. Manitoba's Infrastructure Minister says the building of the highway's second-busiest intersection is another step towards improving traffic and safety on the highway. This is set to begin once another new interchange, on St. Mary's Road, is completed and is to be finished by 2024 at the latest.

"Over the next 10 years, Manitoba will be recognized as a national transportation hub linking east to west, north to south, and enabling strong economic activity in and across our borders," Infrastructure Minister Ron Schuler says while standing near a side road off of the Perimeter Highway near Oak Bluff in a Tuesday announcement.

Shuler says they are prepared to spend $40-60 million on Perimeter intersection improvements. There are 54 other uncontrolled intersections, which Schuler says the province will provide an update on this fall. Fourteen are expected to close by this fall.

"It moves our city, it moves our province forward where we should be going, and that is building economic opportunity in a very safe and sustainable way."

A North Perimeter Highway review has displayed demand for intersections that have access to this highway to be controlled, either with signals or interchanges.

This review proposed closing all unsignalled median openings and stop-sign controlled points if signals are not put up.

Schuler says in a survey, 85 per cent of people were in favour of the proposed changes to the highway's intersections.

"We would like to see in 20, maybe 30 years, that the perimeter highway would achieve the goal that has been set out of it being a freeway status highway."

A study for the North Perimeter Highway will be coming this year to determine locations for future interchanges, grade separations, and access management strategies.

Future changes include turning the Perimeter Highway into a six-lane divided freeway.