Parliament Street is joining the city's not-so-exclusive club of construction zones this month, while the kilometer between King and Gerrard is being dug up for a streetcar rail replacement and complete reconstruction.
"We typically just resurface," says Gordon MacMillan, the city's director of design and construction for linear infrastructure. "But it gets to a point when the sub-base is not strong enough, and you're just wasting your money. It's like putting a new roof on a house that's falling down."
The project will ultimately cost $4.2 million and is scheduled for completion by December.
But the worst may already be over with last week's completion of the work on the stretch's busy Queen intersection.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Gordon MacMillan
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