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City hall transit hub to get enhancements

Council approves infrastructure project contracts for McGillivray Square, Wardrope Avenue and Black Bay Road watermain replacement.
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THUNDER BAY – One of the city’s five main transit transfer points will be getting a facelift later this summer.

Thunder Bay city council on Monday night voted to award a $665,000 contract to Man-Shield (NOW) Construction Ltd. to perform upgrades on McGillivray Square, which serves as the south side transit hub.

The project includes the installation of new, larger bus shelters with LED lighting and radiant heating that will be equipped with electronic passenger information screens. Other added amenities include additional benches and garbage cans.

“There are a number of transit operating deficiencies from a customer perspective there right now,” city transit manager Brad Loroff said last week.

“With respect to side walk widths, that is an item that needs to addressed. The accessible size of the bus shelters – the bus shelters that are there right now don’t really accommodate the volume of passenger traffic that we see.”

At the same time, the work also includes replacement of the curb, gutter and sidewalk along Donald Street between Brodie and May streets in advance of the street being repaved next year.

The project received $200,000 through the federal Public Transit Infrastructure Fund, with another $200,000 already allocated through the transit capital budget. The remaining nearly $200,000 is to be appropriated from the transit reserve fund.

Construction work has also been given the green light on Wardrope Avenue between Hilldale Road and Balsam Street, with council approving a $1.3 million tender submitted by Taranis Contracting Group to repave the road as well as develop a new multi-use trail paralleling Wardrope Avenue from Hilldale Road extending to McVicar Creek.

Council also voted to award a nearly $1-million contract to Nadin Contracting for trunk watermain replacement along a section of Black Bay Road between Hodder Avenue and Dewe Street.



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