Fifty-one Saskatchewan rural municipalities are getting money from the province for road, bridge and culvert improvements.
Details of the $25.5 million Municipal Roads for the Economy program announced in the March budget were revealed April 24.
The program will fund 173 kilometres of road work and 40 bridge and culvert repairs or replacements.
Twelve RMs will get $7.3 million for heavy haul projects, including hot asphalt in Sherwood near the Global Transportation Hub and Orkney near the Yorkton canola crushing plants.
Another 17 RMs will share $4.3 million to develop primary weight truck routes through the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities’ Clearing the Path initiative. White Valley RM in the Eastend area, for example, will see upgrades for roads that service oil and gas, two grain elevators, a short-line railway, a livestock operation and the T-Rex Discovery Centre.
Bridge and culvert projects worth $5 million will take place in 26 RMs.
The MREP funds pay 50 percent of road projects and between 30 and 90 percent of bridge and culvert projects.
