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Building a new access ramp to the Don Valley Parkway north of Eglinton Avenue, 1989. The construction crew is jacking a concrete road Arch through the Canadian Pacific Railway Embankment to make way for the ramp, with technology never before applied in Canada. Garden City Skyway, carrying the Queen Elizabeth Way across the Welland Canal east of St. Catharines, just before its opening in 1963. The old highway can be seen at the left. Its traffic is backed up and the canal bridge is raised.

OGRA Road Schools A new age had dawned and OGRA responded to the challenge with in-service training courses known as Road Schools for its members. The T.J. Mahony Road School, named after an association president and secretary-treasurer, began in 1959 as a basic training program in all aspects of road construction and maintenance. Two years later, the C.S. Anderson Road School, named in honour of another OGRA president, began offering advanced courses in construction, maintenance, and management. Bridge and Structure Inspection Municipal Infrastructure Training Program and Other Programs/Courses In 1997, OGRA assumed the administration of the Ministry of Transportation's Municipal Training Program and renamed it the Municipal Infrastructure Training (MIT) Program. And more recently, in partnership with the Municipal Engineers Association, OGRA has begun administration of other programs/courses such as water/wastewater, explosives training, equipment operator training and many others to fullfill the need for ongoing training in Ontario. MIT Sewer and Watermain Construction Inspection Explosives Training Course Water Quality Analyst Course