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Expanded highways, more rest stops and the return of passenger rail service, all part of a new transportation strategy for northern Ontario.
The draft plan identifies sixty different actions.
It includes identifying how to expand Ontario Northland’s bus service into smaller and Indigenous communities and bringing passenger rail to the north.
Transportation Minister Carolyn Mulroney says the plan also commits to continued four-laning of sections of the Trans Canada, particularly between Thunder Bay and Nipigon and between Kenora and the Manitoba border.
“Our plan includes more than 60 actions that will get people moving, improve travel options for people in remote and First Nations communities while supporting economic growth in the n,” says Mulroney.
Northern Development Minister Greg Rickford says the north faces unique transportation challenges not seen elsewhere.
“We deserve a transportation plan that accounts for those unique circumstances, delivers modern state-of-the-art transportation infrastructure that connects people and businesses in northern Ontario with the rest of the province,” says Rickford.
The plan also proposes new measures to improve winter maintenance.
