The Dixie Road and Etobicoke Creek bridges, and the Ogden Road pedestrian bridge over the QEW will also be replaced.

The QEW is one of the busiest highways in the country with 200,000 vehicles a day.

One of the most confusing highway interchanges in the province is getting a makeover.

The federal and provincial governments have promised to spend $65 million, under the New Building Canada Plan, to fix the Dixie Road interchange on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW).

Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt, who made the announcement alongside Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca, said the upgrade will ease the bottleneck on a highway that serves more than just the GTA.

“It links Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula, three international border crossings beginning at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, travelling around the western shore of Lake Ontario and ending at Highway 427,” Raitt said.

The project would see a complete reconfiguration of the Dixie Road interchange. The Dixie Road and Etobicoke Creek bridges, and the Ogden Road pedestrian bridge over the QEW will also be replaced.

Del Duca said he doesn’t yet know when work will begin but any lane closures during construction will happen outside of peak hours.

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The New Building Canada Plan, touted as the largest and longest federal infrastructure plan in Canadian history, will provide $53 billion provincial and municipal infrastructure support over 10 years until 2024.

The QEW is one of the busiest highways in the country with 200,000 vehicles travelling on it each day.