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Four Laning - Muskoka Road 32/38 to Parry Sound Area (Seguin River)

• Distance 52 km
• 14 km - Twinning (build 2 new lanes parallel to existing highway and convert to 4 lanes)
• 38 km - New Alignment (build all new 4 lanes, by-passing existing highway)
• New by-passes constructed around the communities of Parry Sound and MacTier
• Over 90 properties have been acquired
• 10 new interchanges
• 36 new bridges
• 6.3 million cubic metres of rock excavation, about four times the volume of the Rogers Centre (SkyDome)
• 1.6 million cubic metres of earth excavation
• 2.8 million tonnes of granular material
• 480,000 tonnes of asphalt

Four Laning - Parry Sound (Seguin River) to Sudbury

• Distance 152 km
• Estimated project features:
  • 20 interchanges
  • 103 bridges
  • 14 river crossings
  • 50 stream crossings
  • 37 million cubic metres of materials to be moved (22 times the volume of the Rogers Centre (SkyDome)), including:
    • 23 million cubic metres of rock excavation
    • 7 million cubic metres of earth excavation
    • 8.4 million tonnes of granular material
    • 1.3 million tonnes of asphalt
    • 40,000 machine hours of swamp excavation (5,000 person days of work)
• New bypasses around communities as needed
• Access to new four-lane highway via interchanges
• Service road network
• 30 metre median will separate north and south bound lanes
• Route will be a combination of:
  • two new lanes to twin the existing highway
  • four new lanes on new alignment
• 17 km from Parry Sound (Seguin River) to Highway 559
  • route planning completed
  • construction is underway on 2 separate projects in this section
    • From 3.5 km South of Highway 124 to the South Limit of the Town of Nobel – 7km
    • From the South Limit of the Town of Nobel Northerly – 5 km
• detail design and property acquisition is complete for the remaining 5 km and construction is scheduled to begin in 2008.
  • 41 km from Highway 559 Northerly
• route planning is completed
• Detail Design and property acquisition is underway on three separate projects:
  • From 3.5 km North of Highway 559 to 1 km North of Highway 7182 (Shebeshekong Road) – 16 km
  • From 0.4 km North of Highway 7182 (Shebeshekong Road) to the South Junction of Highway 529 – 11 km
  • From the South Junction of Highway 529 to Harris Lake Road – 14 km
• 27 km from Harris Lake Road Northerly
  • Route planning is currently underway and expected to be completed in 2008
• 47 km from Highway 522 to Estaire
  • route planning completed
  • engineering and property acquisition has begun in two sections:
    • Highway 522 to Highway 64 - 25 km
    • Highway 64 to Estaire - 22 km
• 19.2 km from Estaire to Sudbury
  • route planning completed
  • construction underway on three separate projects in this section:
    • Highway 537 to Sudbury - 8.6 km
    • Estaire to Highway 537 - 4.1 km
    • Estaire bypass - 6.5km
      • engineering and property acquisition underway for the final project in this section to open the new highway from Estaire to Highway 537