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City details how Maley extension will be built

Construction on Phase 1 should begin in July
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The city is getting ready to build the $80.1 million Maley Drive extension, with contracts set to be tendered later this month. File photo
The city is getting ready to build the $80.1 million Maley Drive extension, with contracts set to be tendered later this month.
 
A report headed to council May 10 says since the federal government announced its one-third share in April (the province announced its share of funding in 2014), the city has to file a formal financial plan explaining how the project will be financed.
 
The city has been setting aside more than $2 million a year for Maley for several years, and has more than $15 million in the bank for the project. 
 
Setting aside the remaining $11.7 million will take a little more than five years.
 
“The city is responsible to cover its share of the construction cost and any ineligible expenses, such as property costs,” the report said. 
 
Before any construction contracts can be tendered, councillors have to approve the financial plan. The goal is to begin construction in July. 
 
“This contract will extend to the end of 2017 and include the construction of the majority of the Notre Dame interchange and the realignment of Notre Dame Avenue,” the report said. “The remaining work will be tendered in the following years with completion in 2019.” 
 
In addition to the planned road work, there's funding in the water/sewer capital budget to replace the water main along Maley Drive from Junction Creek to National Street, a distance of about 700 metres. 
 
The work is proposed to be completed in 2016. Staff will report back to council regularly regarding the construction schedule and budget.
Highlights of phase 1 of Maley Drive extension, which is expected to be completed in 2019: 
 
– A new four-lane road will be constructed from Lasalle Boulevard West, near Collège Boréal, to Barrydowne Road.
 
- Traffic will access the new four-lane road via a new interchange to be constructed north of Lasalle Boulevard on Notre Dame Avenue (Municipal Road 80).
 
– To accommodate the new interchange, Notre Dame Avenue will be widened from four lanes to six lanes, north of the improvements that have already been made to the Lasalle-Notre Dame intersection and approaching lanes.
 
– Traffic control at new intersections created by the construction of the four-lane Maley Drive Extension will be achieved with roundabouts at Collège Boréal and Barrydowne Road.
 
- An existing section of Maley Drive, between Barrydowne Road and Falconbridge Highway, will be rehabilitated to complete Phase 1.

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