Connecting Link Funding Pondered

A provincial program to help municipalities pay for improvements to roads that link with the provincial highway system remains a big mystery in the minds of Fort Frances town council.

Town has been banking on the money to do a major upgrade of Scott Street, but councillor Paul Ryan says the fate of the program remains uncertain.

"It was supposed to be in the Northern Growth plan," says Ryan. "I've read the Northern Growth plan at least twice and it's not in there. Are they going to call it something else or they're looking at it. It seems to have fallen through the cracks. It's every unfortunate."

Road improvements were a topic of discussion at the recent Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association conference, but councillor Rick Wiedenhoeft says most of the emphasis was on twinning the Trans-Canada Highway.