Draft of province’s Northern transportation plan due out next month – North Bay Nugget

May 12, 2017

A transportation plan for Northern Ontario will look at every aspect of transportation – including passenger rail – when the draft plan is released next month.

But Tija Dirks, director of the transportation planning branch with the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, admitted Thursday passenger rail proponents will have to prove their case.

“For people who live along the corridor that previously had passenger rail service, this is a very big issue,” Dirks said following her presentation to the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities at Nipissing University.

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