Ontario is set to announce today that speed limits of 110 kilometers per hour on six sections of provincial highways are here to stay.
The province launched a pilot project in 2019 to boost speeds in some areas of the highway across the province, and the Canadian press has learned that these speed limits will become permanent by April 22nd.
Transport Secretary Caroline Mulroney, who is due to make the announcement later today, said in a statement that these sections of the freeway were carefully selected based on their ability to serve higher speeds.
Applies to Queen Elizabeth Way from Hamilton to St. Louis. Catharines, the 402 freeway from London to Sarnia, the 417 freeway from Ottawa to the Quebec border, and the Kanata area to the Arnprior, the 401 freeway from Windsor to Tilbury and the 404 freeway from Newmark Woodbine.
The government said two years ago that 80 percent of people who surveyed the pilot project supported it.
Ontario is also announcing two new areas for a 110km / h test limit on Highway 400 from MacTier to Nobel and Highway 11 from Emsdale on the South River.
The government says that the six sections of the highway that have speed limits of 110 kilometers per hour from 2019 have comparable speeds and collision tendencies with similar sections of highways with limits of 100 kilometers per hour.
Six other provinces have speed limits of more than 100 kilometers per hour on sections of some motorways.
