Blog Post: Infrastructure in the City of Toronto
Dear Residents of Ward 43,
What are Toronto’s two season?
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Winter and infrastructure renewal.
Toronto is indeed a city with all four season however lately we’ve been receiving a lot of winter weather. Does fall and spring even exist?
The season of summer is often associated with summer break if you’re a student or teacher. However to those who work full-time all year round we know that the warm cloudless summer season is perfect construction weather or infrastructure renewal weather.
Yes, yes I know that traffic delays and detours are a pain to sit through or reroute but consider the positive long-term outcome. Some of Toronto’s watermains are over 100 years old and majority of the roads were built in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It may just be about time to get our watermains improved and our roads resurfaced.
Think about the amount of pot holes there are on our city roads, how many of them have been fixed or still need fixing?
The City is prepared to spend over half a billion dollars each year to fix and maintain our watermains and roads. For 2017 the City is investing $700 million to improve core infrastructures. Of this, $310 million will be used on roads, expressways and bridges, another $310 million to be used on sewers and watermains and $70 million on basement flooding protection.
The City of Toronto will be co-ordinating road closures to speed up road work for the upcoming construction season 2017. Check out the city’s web-based map to help motorist plan their way around the city, http://bit.ly/1JdJbEu
Let us all accept the extra commute time for the betterment of our City and its ageing infrastructure.
All my Best,
Paul