Labrador Highway Then and Now (episode 1)

Then:

“I am confident we will see success and that we will see an agreement signed between our government and the federal government on further upgrading of the TLH — that means hard surfacing from the Quebec-Labrador border to the Straits,” [John] Hickey said, adding that he will continue to lobby Quebec to improve Route 389 from Baie Comeau to Labrador City before finishing 138. [The Telegram, September 23, 2006]

Now:

Complete hard surfacing of Phase I of the Trans Labrador Highway [Strategic Plan to Elect Four PC MHAs in Labrador]

Point of information: “Phase I”, in Tobin Terminology, of the Trans-Labrador Highway, is the segment from the Quebec-Labrador border near Labrador City, to Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

That is, not all the way to the Straits.