Gas Tax Program Working

The Association of Municipalities of Ontario is bestowing the virtues of a federal program that gives a portion of gasoline taxes back to cities and towns.

AMO says nearly half a million dollars from the program was spent on about 40 infrastructure projects in the Rainy River district over the past year.

Program manager Judy Dazell says that would not have happened without AMO's intervention.

"When the federal government first came out with this program," says Dazell, "they were actually looking for allocations based on transit ridership. AMO had to remind them that they're not just transit systems that need to be addressed by the infrastructure program."

Dazell says road reconstruction, new sideways and a waste water study are some of the projects where local gas tax allocations have gone towards.