Backgrounder: 2024 road construction season wraps up, improving safety across PEI

Backgrounder

Backgrounder: 2024 road construction season wraps up, improving safety across PEI

The federal government has invested more than $7 million through the Canada Community-Building Fund and the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program to support 12 roads and bridges projects across Prince Edward Island.

Project Information:

Canada Community-Building Fund

Location

Project Name

Project Details

Federal Funding

Provincial Funding

Alberton

Church St/Albion St/Weeks Dr

Replacing asphalt to improve road conditions for motorists

$423,000

$27,000

Bonshaw

Route 1

Repaving the bridge to improve safety, road conditions

$223,720

$14,280

Charlottetown

Route 2 - Country View

Installing traffic lights  to improve safety for a new housing development

$188,000

$12,000

Charlottetown

Route 2 & Melody Lane

Adding traffic signals to improve safety and traffic flow at an intersection for housing development

$188,000

$12,000

Montrose

Route –152

Raising the road bed at the intersection to improve sight distance for safety

$517,000

$33,000

Mount Stewart

Storm sewer

Replacing a storm sewer to keep water from flooding the road

$188,000

$12,000

Newtown

Route 1 - Lower Newtown

Replacing asphalt to improve road conditions for motorists

$831,900

$53,100

Nine Mile Creek

Route 19

Replacing asphalt to improve road conditions for motorists

$653,300

$41,700

Hazelbrook

Route 1

Replacing asphalt to improve road conditions for motorists

$1,057,500

$67,500

ICIP – Rural and Northern Communities Infrastructure Stream

Location

Project Name

Project Details

Federal Funding

Provincial Funding

Basin Head, Kingsboro, Little Harbour, New London, Red Point

Collector Road Safety Improvements

Widening and paving roads to improve road safety; raising the road to improve sight distance in New London

$1,397,696

$1,397,696

Page details

2024-10-30