The provincial government announced more than $1 million in local infrastructure funding that will help with the resurfacing of a highway that connects several towns in Perth County.
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The $1,045,526 is being delivered through the province’s Connecting Links program, which helps maintain vital roads and bridges, and will be used to resurface Mitchell Road South (Highway 23), a 97-kilometer stretch that starts east of Elginfield in Middlesex County and runs through Mitchell, Monkton and Listowel before coming to an end in Wellington County.
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“Maintaining and building new roads are essential to connecting our rural communities,” Perth-Wellington MPP Matthew Rae said in a release. “They are vital to for people getting to jobs, health-care services and getting goods to domestic and international markets. I will continue to work with our municipal partners to advocate for our rural communities to ensure they receive their fair share of provincial infrastructure funding.”
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A connecting link is a designated municipal road or bridge that connects two ends of a provincial highway through a community, or to an international border crossing. This year, the Ontario government has committed $30 million to 21 projects to repair roads and bridges in 19 municipalities across the province.
Eligible costs for Connecting Links include the design, construction, renewal, rehabilitation and replacement of designated municipal roads and bridges. Municipalities are encouraged to apply for 2025–26 Connecting Links program funding when the intake opens later this year.
Prabmeet Sarkaria, Ontario’s minister of transportation, said the government is investing $27 billion over the next decade to build and repair roads, highways and bridges.
“We will continue to support our municipal partners to ensure we build a better, stronger Ontario that leaves no community behind.”
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