The announcement sees 39 municipalities share in $1.6 million worth of funding to develop or enhance asset-management practices.

The expanded Ontario Line subway project in Toronto isn’t scheduled to open until 2027, but Metrolinx has already given the public a taste of what three of the line’s stations will look like.

The work, which will proceed under a public-private partnership (P3) arrangement, calls for widening a stretch of road of approximately 16 kilometres from two lanes to four between Essex and Leamington.

The crossing is the oldest in the National Capital Region, and will see extensive repair work at a cost of just shy of $25 million.

Work on a 20-kilometre stretch of the highway will be performed by a contracting partnership that involves Garden River First Nation, Shwe Miikaan Corporation and Miller Paving Limited.