Ford government plans to expand Highway 401 to 3 lanes across eastern Ontario
we’re almost at full capacity. We’re going to have to grow farther to the east, and this allows that to happen.”
One way that allows it to happen is the Belleville East Arterial Route, a proposed new interchange just east of the Cannifton Road exit. This new exit would take heavy trucks away from residential roads and divert them straight to the industrial park.“Cannifton Road is not an industrial road,” says Panciuk.
“It’s got residential, it’s got commercial on it. It’s really important for us to get transport trucks off of it.”With the announcement coming close to election time, it seems that the Progressive Conservatives are banking on re-election to get this expansion done. “If you want to see the four-lane highway turned into a six-lane highway, and things like the new interchange in Belleville happen, it seems like there’s only one party you can count on to get those types of projects done,” says SmithEnvironmental impact studies are now underway, and Smith says shovels could be in the ground in the next couple of years.
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