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WELLINGTON:<\/strong> The Minister of the Department of Public Works provided an update on when crews are expected to break ground for the Aerotech Connector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the post-Cabinet virtual media scrum Jan. 13 with media, The Laker News asked Minister Kim Masland for an update on when residents will see the actual construction for the $21-million project begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There had been some clearing work done in mid 2020 at the site, adjacent to Hwy 2 and Oaken Hills in Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Masland said the Aerotech Connector project is one that is of importance for those in the Wellington-Fall River and area communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s important for the residents of the growing Waverley-Wellington-Fall River area and to the commercial businesses in that area as well,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is tremendous traffic congestion and we\u2019re excited for this project to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe anticipate construction to start this Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The timeline still puts it as Fall of 2022 to be completed by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The federal government contributed $10 million to the construction of the Wellington\/Aerotech Connector; while the province is contributing $11.2 million to cover the $21 million project. It will be five kilometres in length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”105″] [adrotate banner=”93″] WELLINGTON: The Minister of the Department of Public Works provided an update on when crews are expected to break ground for the Aerotech Connector. During the post-Cabinet virtual media scrum Jan. 13 with media, The Laker News asked Minister Kim Masland for an update on when residents will see the actual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[212,3064,727,2,2610,2669,143],"class_list":["post-25978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-aerotech-connector","tag-breaking-ground","tag-construction","tag-fall-river","tag-kim-masland","tag-public-works","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}