Two Northern Ontario municipalities are receiving provincial cash for roadwork this summer.
Ontario has revealed the 24 municipalities chosen for the 2020-21 Connecting Links program, which covers up to 90 per cent of elgible road projects to a maximum of $3 million. The funding is to help municipalities build, repair or replace municipal roads and bridges connecting two ends of a provincial highway through a community.
Black River Matheson is receiving $641,192 for the resurfacing of Fourth Avenue from Highway 11 to Second Street.
Kapuskasking is receiving $2.8 million to resurface Government Road from Lasalle Avenue to Gurney Road.
"We understand that the maintenance and repair costs of roads and bridges places a heavy burden on our municipal partners," said Caroline Mulroney, Minister of Transportation, in a news release. "That is why we continue to support our local communities with investments that will keep families safe, goods moving, and drive economic growth and job creation."
In Timmins, the Connecting Link is a 21.35-kilometre stretch of Highway 101 running from Kamiskotia Road in the west to the old railway tracks in Porcupine.
Since 2016 more than $19 million of roadwork has been done on about five kilometres from the top of Rae Hill to Legion Drive.
Planned work on the Connecting Link in Timmins isn't moving ahead this year after the sole bid for roadwork on Algonquin Boulevard between Mattagami Boulevard South just east of the bridge to Theriault Boulevard came in millions over budget. The city engineer's estimate for the project was $6.1 million, and the sole bid came in at $8.5 million.
