Hundreds of Provincial Construction Projects Underway This Summer Across the Province
Construction crews are at work across Ontario building and upgrading hospitals, schools, transit projects, roads and bridges that will help people in their everyday lives by improving access to crucial public services and getting people where they need to go.
Premier Kathleen Wynne was at Etobicoke General Hospital in Toronto today to announce that shovels are in the ground on hundreds of projects around the province, with many scheduled to be completed this summer. This busy construction season is part of the greatest investment in infrastructure in Ontario’s history — more than $190 billion over 13 years beginning in 2014-15.
Major builds or upgrades that are starting or wrapping up this summer include:
- Breaking ground in Wellington County on the Groves Memorial Community Hospital, a state-of-the-art facility that will provide a growing community with more space for emergency, ambulatory, diagnostic and inpatient services
- Building new schools, including St. John Catholic French Immersion School in London, which will welcome more than 500 students in September
- Expanding and upgrading Ontario’s roads — including restoring bridges and resurfacing highways in the Ottawa region — to help ease gridlock and keep people and cargo moving
- Opening an upgraded wastewater treatment plant in Owen Sound to clean up waste water so it is safer to release into the environment
- Opening Ontario Place Urban Park and William G. Davis Trail, creating a new urban park and trail with easy access to the Toronto waterfront.
- Complete list of projects
Building and upgrading hospitals, schools, highways, transit systems and other crucial infrastructure is part of Ontario’s plan t o create jobs, grow our economy and help people in their everyday lives.
Provinical Construction Projects Starting this Summer in Windsor-Essex
| Essex Rd. 46 to Highway 401 | Comber, Essex County | Roads and bridges | Pavement rehabilitation and drainage improvements on Highway 77 at Essex Rd. 46 near Comber |
| West River Street Corridor Project | Lakeshore | Roads and bridges | Rehabilitation of West River Street and intersection improvements at Notre Dame and West River Street |
| Marlborough/Chestnut Reconstruction and Sewer Separation Project | Leamington | Roads and bridges | Road reconstruction and sewer separation along Marlborough, Fox and Chestnut Streets |
| Tecumseh Sanitary Sewer Collection System Rehabilitation | Tecumseh | Communities | Rehabilitation of the sanitary sewer collection system |
| Windsor CVIF Low Bays Rehab | Windsor | Roads and bridges | Construction of inspection low-bays at the Windsor Commercial Vehicle Inspection Facility |
QUICK FACTS
- Ontario’s record infrastructure investment is supporting 125,000 jobs, on average, each year.
- A study by the Centre for Spatial Economics (C4SE) found that, over the long term, Ontario’s real GDP rises by up to $6 on average per dollar of public infrastructure spending.
- This fall, Ontario plans to release its next long-term infrastructure plan, showing how strategic capital investments over the next decade can improve productivity, economic growth and public service delivery.
- The government has just released its Construction Health and Safety Action Plan to help prevent workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities for workers across Ontario.
“Ontarians depend on reliable and sustainable infrastructure for their needs of today and tomorrow. We are working hard to build the province up by making critical infrastructure investments that will help connect communities, grow the economy, create jobs and help lay the foundation for a more prosperous Ontario.” — Bob Chiarelli, Minister of Infrastructure
