Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401.

The province issued a request for proposals for the study in the spring and a spokesperson for Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said Thursday that WSP Canada Inc. was recently awarded the contract.

"Our government is making significant progress on the transformational project to build a tunnel under Highway 401 that will get people and goods moving across the province faster," Dakota Brasier wrote.

Ontario gets moving on Highway 401 tunnel feasibility study

Before the feasibility study was even started, Ontario Premier Doug Ford spoke often and in detail about his vision for a tunnel.

Critics have called the idea a vanity project

Ford laid out his plan for t

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