A promise to twin Highway 40 but without a timeline

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This photo, from a Ministry of Transportation report in 1960 is facing east on Highway 402 in 1959, approaching the Modeland Road intersection, which was converted to an interchange 4 years later. In the distance, the merger of the two carriageways into Highway 7 is just visible. Highway 402 was extended east from Modeland Road to Highway 401 near London through the 1970s. The province in its budget has said it will fund the twinning of Highway 40 from Indian Road to North of Wellington Road but it is not clear when that might happen.

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