Sault Ste. Marie reeled in $10.7 million in combined federal and provincial money to extend a road across the city's north end and provide a direct link with the new hospital under construction.
The Third Line extension project over to People's Road should also take pressure off other roads feeding traffic into the new big box shopping district.
The roadway project has passed an environmental assessment and is scheduled to be finished in time for the completion of the new Sault Area Hospital in 2011. Avery Construction has the job.
The combined provincial and federal funding is coming through the Building Canada fund available to municipalities under 100,000 population. The $1 billion package is earmarked for Ontario infrastructure projects for the 2009-2010 construction seasons.
North Bay grabbed $2.3 million to install Smart water meter technology in all the city's homes this summer.
The Thunder Bay-Superior North communities received $5.6 million in funding including a $2.5 million cheque for Marathon's solid waste management project and $1.8 million for roads in the Municipality of Greenstone.
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