The Ford Government is connecting 107 municipalities across the province with transit systems affected by Covid-19 related costs with $505, 000,000 of new money to address those costs.
Premier Doug Ford says the money will help cover costs such as revenue losses, operating expenses, and provincial transit priority projects.
Here in the Northwest nine communities will be getting money including:
Atikokan $ 5,000.
Dryden $ 19,238
Fort Frances $ 5,000
Greenstone $ 5,000
Kenora $ 20,072
Machin $ 9,142
Schreiber $ 5,000
Sioux Lookout $ 5,000
Thunder Bay $ 871,024
Previously the federal and provincial governments have collectively invested more than two billion dollars since 2020 for transit systems affected by Covid-19.