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Ontario will pay for maintenance on Road 174 and consider assuming full responsibility for it from the city, fund a new interchange on Highway 416 at Barnsdale Road and help pay for a new police sub-station near the ByWard market as part of a more than $600 million funding deal with the City of Ottawa.
The deal was announced Thursday morning when Premier Doug Ford attended the Mayor’s Breakfast with Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe at the Shaw Centre.
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Ford’s “new deal for Ottawa” also includes money for road maintenance on urban and rural roads.
“Nothing is more important than infrastructure,” Ford told the gathering of some 600 people, noting the provincial Progressive Conservatives have invested some $185 billion in infrastructure in the province, including $10 billion invested in the new Ottawa Hospital Civic campus and CHEO.
The new deal includes $543 million in operating and capital funding to support Ottawa’s economic recovery and revitalization of the downtown core. It also adds $197 million over three years to fund operating costs, and another tranche of up to $346 million over 10 years in capital funding.
The maintenance on Road 174 will take place while the province conducts a three-year study on whether it should take financial ownership of the busy artery linking Ottawa’s eastern suburbs to downtown. There is conditional funding for emergency shelters and homelessness prevention, funding for the proposed Kanata North Transitway and funding for infrastructure to support new home construction.
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