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Quick Facts

Highway 69 Corridor (# of vehicles)

Average Volume Based on 2004 Data

Parry Sound -
Sudbury

Average Daily traffic Volume Ranges

5,300 to 11,500

Summer Daily Average Volume Ranges

7,750 to 15,500

Average Daily truck Volume Ranges

860 to 2,820

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, 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