The Ford government and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow are celebrating rare good news from a major construction project, with the Gardiner Expressway rehabilitation work significantly ahead of schedule.

This week, provincial and city officials announced work to renovate the city artery had been cut down to just 1.5 years, partly after a push from Queen’s Park to introduce round-the-clock construction.

“I’m pleased to share our government’s investments to accelerate construction on the Gardiner Expressway, has not only enabled 24/7 work but has reduced the project timeline by nearly two years,” Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said in a statement sent to Global News.

Chow celebrated the same milestone in a video posted to social media, where she said the construction timeline had b

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