Road infrastructure bucks are being earmarked to improve a major traffic artery in Sault Ste. Marie's north end.
The City of Sault Ste. Marie received $877,500 to resurface lanes of Second Line from North Street to Great Northern Line (Highway 17).
The investments are part of the Ontario government's Connecting Link program which features $15 million going toward 26 projects across Ontario.
Under the program rules, a 'connecting link' is a municipal road that connects two ends of a provincial highway through an urban community.
It's part of Queen's Park's larger $2.4 billion highway construction campaign this year.
In Fort Frances, $139,140 is set aside to repair a section of Highway 11 through town, which involves a stretch of Central Avenue from Third Street to the international border, and Scott Street from Central Avenue to Mowat Avenue.
The province has a whole slew of road improvements either ongoing or heading toward completion this year. It includes wrapping up a $6.1 million job of a stretch of Highway 502 at Dryden, finishing the $7.5 million rehabilitation of the Noden Causeway, east of Fort Frances, completing the $19 million replacement of the Sioux Narrows Bridge on Highway 71, and fixing up two other Highway 71 bridges at Mather Creek and Sturgeon Creek, a $5.6 million combined expenditure.
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