NDP MPP Guy Bourgouin\u2019s bill to make winter driving safer on Northern Ontario\u2019s highways 11 and 17 passed another important stage with its second reading vote on Thursday. If Bourgouin\u2019s bill passes, highways 11 and 17 would be cleared of snow within eight hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a good step for the people of Northern Ontario who need and deserve safer winter highways. The Ford government should have acted years ago to clear our highways on time to protect Northern drivers and their families. This government must not sit on this bill and let it die in committee. Each day that goes by means more drivers are risking their lives on the ice and snow of our uncleared highways. Doug Ford and the Conservatives must act now and pass this bill so that all Northerners can finally have safer highways during our long winters,\u201d said Bourgouin.<\/p>\n
Bourgouin\u2019s bill would classify highways 11 and 17 the same as all 400 series highways that have the strictest snow removal requirements. The bill would bump them up to Class 1 in all of their sections, whether two or four-lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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