Highway 11 four-laning rolls on

 
The four-laning of Highway 11 remains on schedule for completion by 2012.

With only 41-kilometres of two-lane highway left between North Bay and Huntsville, “work is progressing at an aggressive pace,” said Ministry of Transportation spokesman Gordan Rennie of the total $400 million construction project.

The next section to open to traffic will be the nine-kilometre section between Katrine and Burk's Falls in the fall of 2010.

There are five contracts currently underway to widen 36 kilometres. The final 5-kilometre leg will be advertised for tender this fall.

J & P Leveque Bros. is the contractor to widen nine kilometres between Katrine and Burk's Falls. The $52.8 million contract involves installing culverts, earth and rock embankments, grading and paving the northbound lanes.

Carillion Canada is the contractor to built a $20.8 million rock embankment and upgrade the service roads at the interchange of Highway 11 and Robins Road/Black Creek Road.

Carillion is also handing a $69.3 million contract to four-lane 10 kilometres between Burk's Falls and Sunridge. The work involves tree clearing, stripping and grubbing, installing culverts, rock blasting, building earth and rock embankments and grading.

Bot Construction is working on a $59.4 million contract to construct the nine-kilometre Sunridge Bypass from south of Highway 124 to Boundary Road. The work involves crushing and fill placement, excavating, building an earth embankment, blasting and driving piles for ramp abutments and placing reinforcing steel at Highway 124.

There is ongoing work of a $64.7 million contract to construct the eight-kilometre South River Bypass from Boundary Road to north of South River. That work involves rock scaling and trimming, placing of top soil, installation of erosion blankets and earth and rock embankment construction.

A separate contract to complete the South River/Sundridge bypass is expected to be advertised this fall.