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City has delayed two major road upgrades

The City of Thunder Bay has put a pair of major road upgrades on hold until 2018.
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Work on a stretch of Balmoral Street north of Hewitson Street planned for 2017 has been postponed, according to city officials, because of budget restraints (Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com).

THUNDER BAY -- The City of Thunder Bay is delaying a pair of major road upgrades, which were originally planned for next year.

Drivers on Junot Avenue and Balmoral Street will have to wait until 2018 at the earliest, for those projects to continue.

City engineering manager Kayla Dixon said they were not able to obtain provincial or federal funding for either one of those projects, but the city is getting $8 million from Ottawa for water and waste water, so they're moving some of those future projects ahead to next year.

The four-laning of Junot, near Windsor Street, was already put on hold once this year. 

It was expected to go ahead in 2017, but that's now been delayed again. 

The next phase of installing storm sewers, curbs and bike lanes on Balmoral has also been cancelled for 2017.

“Routine work in the areas of roads will be pushed forward into our 2018 budget,” Dixon said.

“That’s simply to make sure that we are leveraging federal funding that’s going to be available in 2017, which is more around transit, water and waste water projects.”

The two roads will receive extra funding for patchwork in the 2017 budget. 

Dixon added that delaying the road projects will not save the city in its 2017 budget, because that money will now be spent on the expanded water and waste water work. 

(TBT News)





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