Button-activated traffic signals and one crossover will be installed in Thunder Bay this year.
THUNDER BAY — Pedestrians will have several new locations to safely cross a number of city thoroughfares by the end of this year.
According to Lisa Parent, a project engineer with the City of Thunder Bay, new traffic signals are slated to be installed at the Arthur Street-Leland Avenue intersection, on Red River Road between Clarkson Street and Junot Avenue and at two locations along Golf Links Road — one north of Oliver Road and one south of Oliver.
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