‘It is Queen Street’s turn’ - Mayor Matthew Shoemaker
Construction work on a 450-metre section of Queen Street could begin as early as Wednesday after city council authorized the abbreviated rebuilding project to begin, with just one councillor voting against.
Councillors also authorized street closures from May 1 to Nov. 30 to allow the work, which will include replacing underground services from Elgin to March. When city council first approved the project on Aug. 28 of last year, it was hoping everything from Pim Street to Bruce could be resurfaced for no more than $6 million.
As SooToday exclusively reported last month, the 700 and 800 blocks of Queen Street East, from Pim to East Street, were quietly removed from the project when bid documents were released to contractors.The job was finally shrunk to 450 metres from Elgin to Brock to meet a $6-million limit imposed by city council."It is Queen Street's turn. We're going do this over six years or potentially eight years, depending on how much we can get done throughout the phases," the mayor said.
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