The sewer, water, and road rehabilitation work on Central Avenue will go ahead as hoped this summer after the Town of Fort Frances received “Connecting Link” funding from the Ministry of Transportation.
At its regular meeting Monday night, council passed a bylaw to authorize the town’s participation in funding for highway “Connecting Link” capital improvements in 2008.
The town is getting $971,583 for a portion of the Phase One work started last year, and the entirety of Phase Two of the Central Avenue reconstruction work.
This project, which is being done by Bay City Contracting Ltd., will resume later this spring and carry through until the fall.
In related news, council passed a bylaw to amend Bylaw 10/03 (the Traffic Control Bylaw).
The amendments include prohibiting parking on the north side of the 300 block of Nelson Street and the first 55 metres of the north side of Nelson, measured westerly from the intersection of Victoria Avenue.
The purpose is to facilitate the movement of heavy trucks safely while the biomass boiler is under construction.
The construction of the new biomass boiler, along with the addition to St. Mary’s Church, eventually will result in the creation of two new parking lots and the widening of this part of Nelson Street, which will facilitate the movement of large trucks.
At this time, parking along Nelson Street will be reassessed, Superintendent of Planning and Development Rick Hallam noted in a report received by council.
Other amendments, made in accordance with numerous recommendations made by the Border Traffic Advisory Committee at the March 24 council meeting, include:
•no stopping from a point five metres west of the west entrance at 525 King’s Highway (Tim Hortons) to a point five metres east of the west entrance to Tim Hortons;
•no stopping from a point 10 metres west of the east exit at Tim Hortons to a point 15 metres east of the east exit at Tim Hortons;
•left turns prohibited on Second Street East at Central Avenue, First Street East on Central Avenue, and Scott Street at Central Avenue, which will apply daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. from May 15-Oct. 15 (this is for traffic travelling west, turning southerly onto Central Avenue).
•no U-turns on Central Avenue from Church Street to Third Street West;
•no U-turns on Third Street West from Central Avenue to King’s Highway; and
•no U-turns on King’s Highway from Third Street West to Oakwood Road.
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