Governments pledge $105 million for city infrastructure projects
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This article was published 25/02/2017 (2588 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeggers will celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday with more than 150 road and sidewalk projects courtesy of the three levels of government.
The infrastructure work, announced Friday by Mayor Brian Bowman, federal MP Jim Carr, and provincial Minister of Families Scott Fielding, will see a total of $105 million go to specific local roads, back lanes and sidewalk projects.
“Winnipeggers have said time and time again that fixing the roads is their number one priority,” Bowman said in a statement.
“Its taken us just three years to exceed the amount of investment committed to road renewal that councils invested in the previous six years. Our record is clear and fixing the roads will continue to be our number one priority.”
Carr said putting money into community infrastructure such as roads “contributes to a high quality of life by helping to connect people, supporting local businesses and ensuring Canadians can spend less time on the road and more time with their families.”
Fielding said the province is happy to support the projects in Winnipeg because they “help to ensure the efficient flow of both goods and services while making our roads safer and our neighbourhoods better places to live, work and raise a family.”
More than $12.2 million of the $105 million is coming from the federal gas-tax fund, with the rest coming from the city and province.
The projects, which will see more than 130 lane kilometres of improvements, includes $28 million on local street renewals, $1.5 million on sidewalk, curb and street renewals downtown, $38.6 million on major rehabilitation works, and $100,000 on regional accessibility improvements, including detectable warning surface tiles.
A list of the streets and sidewalks to be improved is here.
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