Construction season is expected to start soon.
The City of Timmins expects the Connecting Link work to start on Tuesday, April 25. That means there will be detours for people travelling along the city's main road.
The work scheduled for 2023 is Algonquin from Wilcox to Cedar Street and Riverside Drive from Government Road to Shirley Street.
During the first phase of work downtown — to complete the section not finished last year — Algonquin will be fully closed from east of Waterloo to Elm Street. Westbound traffic will be diverted to the north detour, which is Elm Street to Fifth Avenue, north on Mountjoy to Vimy then west on Vimy to Theriault Boulevard, which leads back to Algonquin. There will be a temporary three-way stop at Vimy and Mountjoy and a four-way stop at Theriault and Vimy.
The south detour is Cameron Street to Commercial Avenue, north on Mountjoy to Third Avenue, then north on Elm to Algonquin. There will be temporary traffic lights at Commercial and Cameron, and Commercial and Mountjoy.
Heavy truck traffic will be sent around the downtown core altogether.
That detour includes Shirley Street, Lafleur Drive, Laforest and Highway 655.
The temporary 50 km/h speed zone will be back in place for the heavy truck detour and will see the speed limit drop on Airport Road for about 1.25 kilometres after the Laforest intersection.
Ahead of the Connecting Link detours starting, the city is asking heavy trucks to start using the Airport Road detour so that city crews can tackle the potholes on the main road.
SEE: Heavy truck traffic asked to use detour around downtown core
Below is a map of the detours for the first phase of work:
