In the next two years, the Ontario government is investing a record $773 million in the Northern Highways Program, surpassing last year’s previous record amount by $125 million – an increase of almost 20 per cent.
Northern Mayors and officials welcomed the Ontario government's plan to bring road construction to their communities.
In the next two years, the Ontario government is investing a record $773 million in the Northern Highways Program, surpassing last year’s previous record amount by $125 million – an increase of almost 20 per cent.
Three major projects from the 2010 Ontario budget have been confirmed:
The Nipigon River Bridge and approximately three kilometres approaching the bridge from both directions will be four-laned beginning in 2011.
Twelve kilometres between Red Rock Road No. 9 and Still Water Creek, near Nipigon is expected to be twinned in 2012.
Approximately 13 kilometres of Highway 11/17 from Highway 527 to west of Mackenzie Station Road will be expanded. This project will begin in 2012. Once complete, this will create a continuous 33-kilometre stretch of four-lane divided highway east out of Thunder Bay.
Between 5,000 and 10,000 vehicles a day travel along Highway 11/17 between Thunder Bay and Nipigon — a strategic link in the Trans-Canada Highway System that in some sections has no alternate route in the event of a road closure.
The government is spending nearly $1.2 billion in the province to improve highways, hospitals, water and wastewater systems and other infrastructure, which is expected to support 10,000 jobs in 2010-11.
