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Aecon picks up Highway 11-17 four-laning job

Aecon Construction and Materials Ltd. was awarded a $46.3-million construction contract to continue four-laning work between Thunder Bay and Nipigon. Two new lanes will be added from Highway 527, heading east for 13 kilometres.
Northern Ontario Business Staff

Aecon Construction and Materials Ltd. was awarded a $46.3-million construction contract to continue four-laning work between Thunder Bay and Nipigon.

Two new lanes will be added from Highway 527, heading east for 13 kilometres. It's a continuation of a widened highway between Hodder Avenue at Thunder Bay and Highway 527 which was completed in Sept. 2012.

Construction starts later this year with completion expected in 2015. Another four-laning project is also underway between Mackenzie Station Road and Birch Beach Road.

Once work is complete, there will be 33 kilometres of four-lane highway from Hodder Avenue to Birch Beach.

"Coming on the heels of the completion of the first major expansion project on Highway 11/17 between Thunder Bay and Nipigon, this initiative is another important step in the four-laning of this corridor," said Michael Gravelle, MPP for Thunder Bay-Superior North