About Acheson
Acheson Business Association was started in August 2004 as a formal association. The association has actively worked to:
- Identify Acheson as its own postal code rather than using Spruce Grove
- Increase signage within the area with highway signage identifying Acheson Industrial Area on Hwys 16, 16A, and 60
- Identify high risk areas and lobbied for lights at Acheson Road & Hwy 60 and TWP 531A & Hwy 60. Completion Summer 2006
- Lobbied Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation to move Hwy 60 overpass grading and twinning to a three year plan. We have received verbal confirmation from Albert
- Transportation that upgrades to Highway 60 could be started in late 2008
- Identify Hwy 60 north of Hwy 19 as a High Load Corridor. Completion of Phrase Two of a Three Phrase Plan
- Added a Security Chair who informs membership through crime watch fan-out