Province okays funding for Black Rd. and Bay St.

Ontario Minister of Highways Norm Sterling has advised the City he's approved funding for expanding Black Road to five lanes between McNabb Street and Trunk Road.

The City will get $1.2 million for the project under the province's Connecting Link program, which pays 75 per cent of the cost of capital construction work on municipal roads that link two ends of a provincial highway.

Also approved is $130,000 for a mill and asphalt overlay on Bay Street, between East and Pim Streets.

But, Sterling has turned thumbs down on another project worth more than $350,000.

Trunk Road work rejected

"The project that was not approved was a mill/asphalt overlay on Trunk Road from Boundary Road to Dacey Road," says Mel Brechin, the City's commissioner of engineering and planning.

In all, the City of Sault Ste. Marie will get $1.44 million from Sterling, including $100,000 in carryover funding to complete two existing projects: the reconstruction of Black Road between McNabb and Second Line, and design work on the Second Line reconstruction.

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