{"id":63188,"date":"2023-10-31T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=63188"},"modified":"2023-10-31T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:07:44","slug":"hwy-17-wawa-to-batchawana-bay-closed-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/hwy-17-wawa-to-batchawana-bay-closed-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwy 17 (Wawa to Batchawana Bay) OPEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Oct 31, 2023 at 12:05<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Highway 17 has been reopened. Environment Canada&#8217;s Winter Weather Travel Advisory is still in effect from Montreal River Harbour to Searchmont. &#8220;<em>Lake effect snow, heavy at times. Local snowfall amounts of 5 to 10 cm. <\/em><em>Reduced visibility in heavy snow.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Oct 31, 2023 at 10:47<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63213\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-10.47.06-AM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Highway 17 remains closed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The webcams from ON511 show a variety of road conditions between Wawa and Sault Ste. Marie.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heyden is bare and wet.<\/li>\n<li>Batchawana Bay looks snowy and perhaps some poor visibility,<\/li>\n<li>Goulais Bay is bare and wet,<\/li>\n<li>Montreal River Hill shows that the highway is bare, wet with some slush, perhaps some snowpack and sunshine,<\/li>\n<li>Red Rock looks wet with some sunshine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63214\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-10.51.42-AM-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-10.51.42-AM-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-10.51.42-AM.png 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Motorists can detour by taking Highway 101 (Wawa to Chapleau), then Hwy 129 to Thessalon and rejoin Hwy 17. Highway 101 shows as being bare, and Hwy 129 is partly snow-covered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Oct 31, 2023 at 05:11<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63208\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-5.11.38-AM-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-5.11.38-AM-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-5.11.38-AM-600x339.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-5.11.38-AM-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-5.11.38-AM.png 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Highway 17 remains closed at this time. The webcams show a variety of road conditions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heyden is bare and wet.<\/li>\n<li>Batchawana Bay and Goulais Bay is bare and wet with some slush,<\/li>\n<li>Montreal River Hill shows that the highway is snow-covered, with no pavement visible.<\/li>\n<li>Red Rock looks wet, with slush.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Oct 31, 2023 at 02:48<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63194\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63194\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63194\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-4.02.29-AM-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-4.02.29-AM-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-4.02.29-AM-600x360.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-4.02.29-AM.png 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-63194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weather Radar at 2:48 a.m.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Highway 17 between Wawa and Batchawana Bay has been closed due to poor weather and road conditions.\u00a0 The highway was closed at 1:37 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists can detour by taking Highway 101 (Wawa to Chapleau), then Hwy 129 to Thessalon and rejoin Hwy 17.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">Remember that the Sultan Industrial Road at Stephens (~66-67km) will be closed on Tuesday, October 31st from 8 am to 4 pm. CN is completing some maintenance at the rail crossing location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 31, 2023 at 12:05 Highway 17 has been reopened. Environment Canada&#8217;s Winter Weather Travel Advisory is still in effect from Montreal River Harbour to Searchmont. &#8220;Lake effect snow, heavy at times. Local snowfall amounts of 5 to 10 cm. Reduced visibility in heavy snow.&#8221; Oct 31, 2023 at 10:47 Highway 17 remains closed at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 11:40:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63188"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63233,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63188\/revisions\/63233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}