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Warden Guy Desjardins takes charge
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
tween Rockland and Orléans on the priority list. The city’s MTP does not schedule that route for major improvement budgeting until around 2030. That is too long a wait, Desjardins believes, given that a final report is due soon on an environmental assessment (EA) on expansion of the 17/174 connection. “Let’s use the study we have now and get something started,” said Desjardins, noting that the results of the EA will be good for about five years. The provincial government funded the EA report. Desjardins noted that he and other UCPRmayors were in Toronto earlier in the year to attend Prescott-Russell Day events at Queen’s Park when provincial officials announced funding for widening and up- grading Highway 17 up inNorthern Ontario, including a four-lane expansion toThunder Bay. He argues that Eastern Ontario should also receive the same consideration. “If they can spend somemoney up north,” he said, “they can spare somemoney for us.” Desjardins confirmed he will push for a meeting with TransportationMinister Steven Del Duca during next year’s Ontario Good Roads Association (OGRA) conference, and he will also bring the issue up during next month’s Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) session. Desjardins also listed seeing a final solu- tion to the status of Alfred College and efforts to build on the local tourismpotential of the Ottawa River as other goals for him during his termnext year as warden for the counties.
WardenGuy Desjardins wasted no time in stating his main goals for next year as the new head official for the United Counties of Prescott-Russell. “County Road 17 is an important economic driving force,” said Desjardins, “but right now it is a financial burden to (local) taxpayers.” Desjardins listed immediate discussion with the provincial government to take back responsibility for County Road 17 as a top priority. The road was a provincial highway until the past Harris/Eaves Progressive Con- servative government downloaded it onto the counties. “County Road 17 is an important eco- nomic driving force,” said Desjardins, “but right now it is a financial burden to (local) taxpayers.” During a later interview, Desjardins expanded on his reasons for pursuing the uploading issue with the provincial govern- ment.The City of Ottawa is involved with the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) in a proposal to expand to four-lane status the highway connection between Rockland and Orléans. County Road 17 and Highway
Mayor Guy Desjardins of Clarence-Rockland takes his oath of office as warden of the United Counties of Prescott-Russell fromAndrée Latreille, counties clerk, during the Dec. 16 inaugural session of the new counties council.
174 meet at the Canaan Road intersection just west of Rockland. The City of Ottawa is responsible for Highway 174 after it was downloaded onto the municipality.
But Desjardins noted that Ottawa’s own Master Transportation Plan’s (MTP) sched- ule for upgrading its municipal transit setup does not include the Highway 174 link be-
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