The finding was part of the auditor general's value-for-money audit of highway planning and management in Ontario
The province's auditor general has found that $158 million earmarked for northern highway projects was re-directed to work in southern Ontario.
The report also found the government exceeded its planned 10-year budget, and proposed deferring six expansion projects from its rolling 10-year infrastructure plan. “We received a strong mandate from the people of Ontario to build," Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney said in a statement. “In the last year we have seen an alarming increase of fatal collisions on our roads, particularly in the north," he said. Injuries and fatalities are more likely to occur on a northern highway as compared to a highway in southern Ontario.”In her response, Mulroney said the government has requested proposals for a two-plus-one highway project on Highway 11 in the North Bay area.
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