The Government of Canada and the Province of Manitoba have announced that the City of Thompson will be receiving $40 million towards its Road Renewal Program as part of the 2019 Investing In Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP)’s Rural and Northern Infrastructure Stream.
The grant includes a federal contribution of $20M, a provincial contribution of $13.3M, and a $6.7M contribution from the City of Thompson. The grant will fund renewal of nearly 20km of 24 different roads in the community over a five-year period, almost a fifth of Thompson’s entire road network:
| Thompson Drive North + South | Public Lane |
| Nelson Road | Beaver Crescent |
| Deerwood Drive | Elk Bay |
| Caribou Road | Fox Bay |
| Lynx Crescent | Silver Street |
| Riverside Drive | Juniper Drive |
| Nickel Road | Spruce Road |
| Princeton Drive | Westwood Drive |
| Mallard Crescent | Sandpiper Crescent |
| Pintail Crescent | Wolf Street |
| Coral Crescent | Hayes Road |
| Seal Road | Station Road |
“Council and administration have been working for three years to achieve this funding. We can’t understate what a massive investment this is: this is equal to a year’s worth of the City’s budget, dedicated exclusively to road work,” said Mayor Collen Smook. “Thompson is bigger than the people who live here: we are the Hub of the North, and people from across the region rely on our infrastructure year-round. This massive investment, from federal and provincial governments, recognizes our critical role in the north.”
“We’re still working hard behind the scenes, and this is just the start of more good things coming for the City,” she added.
Read the Provincial announcement, along with the other projects awarded funding under the RNI Stream, here: https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=51899&posted=2021-07-26
The Northerner 
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