McNab-Braeside Mayor Lori Hoddinott didn’t hear anything yesterday that changed her mind from concerns expressed at Renfrew County’s Operations Committee Meeting on May 27th.
It was there that comments from Admaston-Bromley representative Michael Donahoue suggested there wasn’t one sentence of ink in all of Ontario suggesting Highway 17 would be twinned anytime before 2036.
Hoddinott says since a local delegation met the MTO in Toronto to open 2026, you need two hands to count the highway deaths that have occured on a critical stretch of roadway.
The Mayor says they weren’t told anything Thursday to contract Donahue’s 2036 timeline concerns.
She says don’t expect any ribbon-cutting announcements in the near future.
While Renfrew County waits costs mount; but the biggest toll of all is the lives of friends and neighbours.
Hoddinott says, in effect, McNab-Braeside taxpayers are subsidizing Provincial intransigence.
With a long list of critera remaining to be attended to, the McNab-Braeside Mayor is frustrated by a lack of results.
Rick Stow with files from Robert Kubbinga
