Lambton County's warden says provincial officials have promised a follow-up round-table discussion on a host of transportation-related issues in the area. Bev MacDougall says a comprehensive list including Hwy. 402 winter road maintenance and the decades-long lobby effort for widening of Hwy. 40 in Sarnia was presented at a meeting Thursday. A county delegation met with Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca and his staff at Queen's Park. [audio mp3="http://blackburnnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Warden-on-Del-Duca-Mtg.mp3"][/audio] MacDougall says Del Duca's Chief of Staff promised to arrange a follow-up round-table meeting. She says she again extended an invitation to the minister to come to Sarnia-Lambton. MacDougall says there's also the possibility of a follow-up meeting at February's Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference in Toronto.
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