PASSING PAVERS FIND HWY. 11 TOUGH ROAD TO HOE IN HEAT
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
SOUTH MUSKOKA — Getting out on the road after the lockdown is a little bit easier between Bracebridge and Gravenhurst this week.
Commuters — long haulers, shoppers and stay-cationers — between the twin towns are finding the path to reopening a little smoother thanks to some hot pavers and private highway contractors.
They’ve been laying down the black top, yellow lines and guard rails from Muskoka Falls to the north entrance of Gravenhurst for more than a week.
And it’s hard, hot work for which this morning’s respite of rain had to be a welcome sight — and feel.
Though it might have been a little steamy in early hours and as their long day wore on as usual in to the night toward the longest day of the year.
But the work — including some interesting new guide lines on the east shoulder of the northbound lanes heading out of Gravenhurst — should speed up morning and evening traffic for thousands of drivers along the 15-minute north and south stretch of hurried highway.
Even it is only surface treatment.
Call it G-9.
The top-up is the first in a decade since the 2010 when hundreds of thousand of federal dollars went in to Muskoka roads (and one gazebo) for the great G-8 Summit in Huntsville — where world leaders flew in and drove out to the Muskoka Airport to flee home after a day at Canada’s superist summer cottage party ever.
So, as the province gets moving again this summer it will be smoother sailing — at least through South Muskoka.
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