Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation is conducting an environmental assessment for the proposed expansion. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. When operations are in full swing at the VW plant, traffic is forecast to swell, reaching between 1,500 and 1,600 vehicles per hour. Highway 3 now carries 424 vehicles per hour at its evening peak, according to the local economic development office.
Thomas, a city of about 40,000, is one of two electric vehicle battery plants being built in Southwestern Ontario and will be Canada’s largest factory complex, employing about 3,000 people and costing $7 billion.Īs many as 30,000 spinoff jobs are expected to be created, many of them in the area.Īll that means the area road network needs to be upgraded to keep up. Thomas industrial area to the 401 west in less than 15 minutes, without having to stop anywhere,” he said.Ĭovering an area the size of 210 football fields, VW’s massive new plant in St. “A good portion of our logistics goes westbound and this will make it so you can get from anywhere in the St. “The expansion of Highway 3 is a significant move to grow our industrial area, not just for the battery plant but for all of our industries,” said Sean Dyke, chief executive of the St. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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