There is no promise yet from the province on repairing or uploading Municipal Rd., the former Highway 67 that connects Highways 101 and 11, crossing the border between Timmins and Iroquois Falls.
The mayors and CAOs of both municipalities met transportation minister Prabmeet Sarkarian last month. Timmins CAO Dave Landers says all they were told is it’s being studied, while the deterioration of the road continues.
“If there’s no help on the way, we know that our partners in Iroquois Falls will never be able to get around to working on their share of the road,” he says. “The sheer cost of it is multiple times their municipal budget.”
Landers adds that Timmins could do its part of the road, but the expense would mean reduction of other services.
“At some point, if there’s no help on the way and there’s no other way to address it, we’re going to take up the asphalt, pulverize it and it becomes an actual municipal road, and not a highway like it actually is.”
The province downloaded the road to the municipalities about 25 years ago.
