Another break in the long-running work to build the Highway 26 re-alignment between Collingwood and Wasaga Beach.
Work to take down trees on the Wasaga end of the highway has been completed.
The tender for the construction and paving of the four-lane highway won’t go out until sometime in late June or July.
MTO spokesperson Will MacKenzie says it will take a few months to sort through the tenders, so the earliest heavy machinery might be seen working on the new roadway will be September.
MacKenzie says once the work is tendered, it will be two and a half construction seasons before it’s finished, so don’t expect to drive on the new road until late in 2012.
He says while it might not look like there’s much work going on, crews are moving the utilities, like telephone and hydro lines to make way for the final phase of construction.
Plans for the highway realignment were first announced by the province in 2003, under Ernie Eves’ PC government.
The project was abruptly halted immediately following the election of the current Liberal government in 2006.