Route 257 work underway
Agroup of local politicians broke ground on the work to rebuild route 257 in the Haute Saintfrancois region last week. The rural highway runs from Saint-adrien in the north to the Pittsburg–chartierville border crossing in the south, passing through communities like Weedon, Gould, Scotstown, La Patrie, Lingwick and Hampden along the way, and has long been considered by locals to be in need of significant repair.
Although the condition of the road was an issue raised in the last provincial election campaign, it was the creation of an intermunicipal cost-sharing agreement between Weedon, La Patrie, Lingwick, Scotstown and Hampden that ultimately paved the way for the work to get started, with the support of the Haut-saint-françois MRC and Mégantic MNA François Jacques.
The work is set to take place over a 39.3 km stretch of road in a step-by-step process over 16 weeks in 2021 and 2022.
Right: Sylvie Dubé, mayor of Scotstown; Johanne Delage, mayor of La Patrie and president of the MRC’S route 257 committee; Céline Gagné, mayor of Lingwick, Maylis Toulouse, deputy mayor of Weedon; Robert G. Roy, prefect of the Haut-saint-françois MRC and François Jacques, MNA for Mégantic.