Nelson Sergerie, LJI Jounalist

GASPÉ – Eleven construction sites are currently active in the Gaspé region as part of the Quebec Infrastructure Strategy.

This information comes from a new interactive map put online by Quebec City on June 19. However, some of the map’s elements are questionable.

For example, the map shows that section 2 of the rail line between Caplan and Port-Daniel-Gascons is in service, even though over the third week of June, the Société du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie indicated that a bridge in Caplan had not yet been completed.

Rehabilitation of this section has now cost $299.7 million.

Section 3, on the other hand, is in the planning stage, with the budget to be announced once the project is formally approved.

Other transportation projects include the $27.3 million Petit Pabos river bridge in Chandler and theplanned refurbishment of the Matapédia bridge.

In terms of public buildings, the Maison des aînés in Chandler ($75.6 million), the Carrefour de l’innovation des pêches in Grande-Rivière ($31.2 million) and the English elementary-secondary school in New Carlisle ($30.3 million) are on the agenda.

Finally, there are two social and collective housing projects in the planning phase: the 84-apartment Havre district in Gaspé and the 36-apartment Villa Mgr Bourdages in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts.
Notably absent from the interactive map is the emergency and intensive care renovations project at the Maria hospital.