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Article: Four-laning Trans-Canada Highway: constructing rest stops big issue for Kenora mayor.(TRANSPORTATION)
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- Northern Ontario Business
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- August 1, 2009
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Fatigue kills, take a break.
Kenora Mayor Len Compton has viewed those highway signs that greet motorists entering northwestern Ontario from Manitoba.
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While you'll get no complaints from Compton about Ottawa and Queen's Park's expenditure of $100 million to twin a dangerous stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway next year, finding a place for motorists to relieve themselves in minus-20-degree-weather would make it a tad better.
In May, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the flow of cash to four-lane a 10-kilometre stretch of road between Kenora and Manitoba was finally on its ...