Provincial funds for public transit.
Queen’s Park is providing $375.6 million to 107 municipalities in 2022 as part of Ontario’s Gas Tax program.
The money allocation is determined by the number of litres of gasoline sold in the province during 2021.
Municipalities that support public transit services in their community receive two cents per litre of provincial Gas Tax revenue, which can be used to extend service hours, buy transit vehicles, add routes, improve accessibility or upgrade infrastructure.
Six million is going specifically to northern Ontario communities.
The funding breakdown for some of those cities and towns is as follows:
Atikokan $23,817
Dryden $66,714
Fort Frances $71,538
Kenora $142,998
Machin $9,374
Sioux Lookout $50,985
Thunder Bay $2,251,850
Wawa $25,843
Money earned marked to Fort Frances and Atikokan have traditionally gone toward the operation of their handi-transit services.
