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Ontario government investing in highway infrastructure, creating jobs

June 10, 2009 – The 2009 highway construction
season will create more than 16,000 direct and indirect jobs and expand, repair
and improve highways, roads and bridges across the province, according to today’s
McGuinty government announcement. 

Key
construction projects include:

• Widening
  Highway 401 between Highway 410 and Hurontario Street in Mississauga

• Building
  15 kilometres of new Highway Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes on the QEW,
  from Guelph Line in Burlington to Burloak Drive
  in Oakville

• Widening
  Highway 401 from four to six lanes from Windsor to Tilbury as part of the Border
  Infrastructure Fund project

• Continuing
  the extension of Highway 410 from Mayfield Road to Highway 10 in Brampton and
   Highway 404 from Green
  Lane to Ravenshoe Road

• Completing
  the first phase of construction on the Highway 406 twinning project in Welland.

The McGuinty government is
investing a record $2.4 billion in 2009 – an increase of 24 percent over last
year.