Tired of construction yet? The city has announced it will spend $215-million on road work this summer, including major projects expected on the Gardiner Expressway and other major routes, 680 News reports.
At a news conference on Monday, Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, chair of the public works and infrastructure committee, is reported as saying more than 185 kilometres of road will be resurfaced. As per the artcle in Metro, these include:
- Markham Road from Kingston Road to Lawrence Road
- Victoria Park Avenue from Eglinton Avenue to Lawrence Avenue
- Wilson Avenue from Bathurst Street to Dufferin Street
- Finch Avenue from Kipling Avenue to Highway 27
- Kipling Avenue from Bloor Street to Dixon Road
Even with this construction, not all roads will be repaired this summer.
"If the backlog is somewhere around $300 million and it costs $1 million a kilometre to resurface a road, that’s 300 kilometres of road that we aren’t getting to this year," says Councillor Minnan-Wong in the article.
Work on the Gardiner will begin in three weeks, closing the weeking of April 26 for its annual spring maintenance. “After that, three reconstruction projects begin on the western portion of the Gardiner which will cause lane closures between the Humber River and Bathurst Street throughout the summer. Some of that work won’t end until December 2016,” the article reports.
"We don’t have a choice of the Gardiner Expressway. It has to be fixed," Minnan-Wong is quoted as saying in the article.
Some projects have been moved ahead to prepare for the 2015 Pan Am Games.
To read the full article and for an interactive map of the planned road work,
click here.
Original source: 680 News