City councillors plan to hold a meeting sooner rather than later on whether the city should debt finance a number of longstanding roads and other projects.
In particular, four-laning MR35 from Azilda to Chelmsford at a cost of $30 million is a priority, as is completing the resurfacing of Lorne Street.
While the city will be applying for infrastructure money for both projects, support appears to be building on council for taking advantage of historically low interest rates to make a dent in the city’s billion-dollar infrastructure deficit.
Meeting Tuesday evening as they neared the end of 2016 budget talks, Ward 4 Coun. Evelyn Dutrisac made a passionate plea for completing the four-laning of MR35. It was something that was promised when th…
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