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Highway 69 plan released: highway to be four-laned from Sudbury to Toronto by 2016.


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 has finally announced it intends to four-lane Highway 69 within 12 years.

Minister of Northern Development and Mines Rick Bartolucci Rick Bartolucci (born October 10, 1943 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the Sudbury riding. He has been a member of the assembly since 1995, and is currently a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty.  and Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal David Caplan David Caplan (born November 15, 1964) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and is a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty.  made that long-awaited promise to Northerners at a highway construction site south of Sudbury, June 28.

After taking office, Bartolucci, also Sudbury MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. , pledged to have an action plan on Highway 69 before the end of 2005.

Bartolucci campaigned long and hard as an opposition MPP before taking office. His involvement in the Crash 69 committee lobby group included a billboard and bumper sticker bumper sticker
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 campaign featuring mock license plates that read "4-LANE 69."

An action plan on the highway was a campaign plank for Bartolucci and Premier Dalton McGuinty Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and the second Roman Catholic to hold this office. . They promised its release before the start of 2005.

Over the next five years, travellers can expect extensions of passing lanes, paved shoulders and rumble strips on the 115-kilometre long corridor between Parry Sound and Sudbury.

About 20 kilometres of new four-lane highway from Sudbury south to Estaire is planned for completion in 2009. A further 17 kilometres of new four-lane construction from Parry Sound north to Highway 559, near Nobel, is planned for completion in 2010.

Construction along the remaining route could begin by 2010 once all the environmental approvals and property acquisitions are completed. The middle portion between Nobel and Alban has been scheduled for completion in sections between 2012-2016.

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