Partial re-opening of Main Street in popular Ontario tourist town slated for Sunday [Video]

A full closure of Prince Edward County’s main tourist street that had threatened to disrupt traffic well into the tourism season will be partially re-opened to the public June 1.

Work on a new trunk watermain and trunk sanitary sewer for Wellington Main Street was ramped up earlier this year (with workers on the job 24 hours a day for five days a week) to try and get the road back open by early spring but the weather conspired to delay the project by a few weeks.

The section of Wellington Main Street between the water and wastewater treatment plants and Cleminson Street is slated to re-open officially on Sunday.

The additional cost associated with the accelerated construction is covered by the contingency built into the project budget approved by county council.

Crews are currently laying the asphalt base and later this summer a second layer of asphalt will be …