Ontario announces plans to ‘twin’ Garden City Skyway [Video]

The province announced its plans to build a new bridge alongside the Garden City Skyway early Friday.

It allows cross-border traffic to flow over the Welland Canal and seamlessly connects drivers with the Queen Elizabeth Highway.

Officials estimate that 100,000 vehicles cross the Garden City Skyway each day.

With the Greater Golden Horseshoe’s population forecasted to increase to 15 million by 2051, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation called the move a way to “prepare for the future.”

“Our government is in the middle of the most ambitious transportation infrastructure plan in Ontario’s history,” Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said.

“This is one of the most critical corridors from an economic perspective in this province. In a year, will see about a trillion dollars worth of goods travel over this piece of infrastructure behind us here today.”

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The plan, in its current form, is to first build the new bridge alongside the current Garden …