The Town of Kap hit the connecting link grant jackpot in the past couple of years. Nearly six million dollars from the province has been awarded to the town to fix up Highway 11 from LaSalle Street to the Service Master location. Mayor Dave Plourde credits the success of getting both grants on building a relationship with the Ministry of Transportation and the understanding the highway’s importance.
“It is the connecting link, it is the TransCanada highway and it’s used as such,” he said. “A lot of it is not our local traffic, it’s the trucks and heavy equipment that go through. It’s really nice that we have that working relationship with the Ministry finally. And it’s too bad it took that long.”
Plourde says the funding will cover a good stretch of highway 11 that he believes has never been done all at once.
“We have one of the longest connecting links on the TransCanada highway both 17 and 11 at 6.5 kilometres,” he said. “That’s a lot of highway. There has never been very much money in the connecting link program to fund a lot of the connecting links that we have across the province.”
Construction and paving will wrap up this summer on the stretch of Highway 11 from LaSalle to Gurney Road. In 2022, another stretch from Gurney Road to the Service Master location will be fixed up.
