Multi-vehicle pile-up on Highway 402 at Oil Heritage Rd. February 27, 2014. (Photo by Holly Mayea)Multi-vehicle pile-up on Highway 402 at Oil Heritage Rd. February 27, 2014. (Photo by Holly Mayea)
Sarnia

Queen's Park Transportation Meeting Set

A Lambton County delegation will travel to Toronto November 19 to meet with Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca at Queen's Park.

Warden Bev MacDougall, County Public Works Manager Jason Cole, Acting CAO Jim Kutyba and Plympton-Wyoming Mayor Lonny Napper will make the trip.

Mayor Napper says one item of discussion will be snow removal on Hwy. 402

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A recent Auditor General's report slammed the Liberal government's cost-cutting shift to privatized winter road maintenance. It said, in some cases, it took up to five hours longer to clear roads between 2009 and 2014, putting motorists at greater risk.

County officials are also hoping to get a status report on the decades-old proposed widening of a dangerous section of Hwy. 40 in Sarnia.

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