2009-05-15
06:24:25
Work to twin the Trans-Canada Highway west of Kenora will begin starting next year.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and premier Dalton McGuinty were in Kenora Friday afternoon to announce 100 million dollars for the construction project.
Harper says the funding is part of the federal government's infrastructure initiative to boost an ailing economy.
Ten kilometers of Highway 17 will be twinned starting in 2010.
Prime Minister Harper says thats the first phase of the plan to double-lane the highway all the way from the Manitoba border to Kenora.
