{"id":19,"date":"2019-06-25T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:12:13","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has retained McIntosh Perry Consulting Engineers Ltd. and LEA Consulting Ltd. Joint Venture (MP-LEA Joint Venture) to carry out Detail Design and Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) for the intersection improvements at Highway 62 and Ridge\/Moira Road (County Road 8) in West Huntingdon Station in the Municipality of Centre Hastings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Preliminary Design and Class EA Study was undertaken starting in 2012. The study followed the approved planning process for a Group \u2018B\u2019 project under the <em>MTO Class Environmental Assessment for Provincial Transportation Facilities<\/em> (2000). Two Public Information Centre meetings were held during the Preliminary Design (July 2013 and 2014). A Transportation Environmental Study Report (TESR) was prepared in 2014 during preliminary design and was made available for a 30-day comment period. The TESR evaluated a number of design alternatives and selected a preferred design alternative (Recommended Plan) for long term improvements at the intersection. The Recommended Plan included constructing a modern roundabout at the Highway 62 and Moira\/Ridge Road intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nproject scope of work includes, but is not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Intersection improvements including construction of a roundabout at the\nHighway 62 and Ridge\/Moira Road intersection;<\/li><li>Minor alignment modifications to Highway 62 and Ridge\/Moira Road;<\/li><li>Improvements to intersection sight distances; and<\/li><li>Installation of new concrete islands with curb and gutter on roundabout\napproaches and modification of entrance connections. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has retained McIntosh Perry Consulting Engineers Ltd. and LEA Consulting Ltd. Joint Venture (MP-LEA Joint Venture) to carry out Detail Design and Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) for the intersection improvements at Highway 62 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/?page_id=19\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moiraroundabout.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}