Posted March 29, 2022 at 6:05 am
Updated March 29, 2022 6:30 p.m.
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-ONE Larger font Increase the font size of the article A + Ontario maintains speed limits of 110 kilometers per hour on six sections of country highways. The province announced on Tuesday that the enhanced speed limits in some areas of the highway, which were introduced as a pilot project in 2019, will become permanent from April 22. Transport Secretary Caroline Mulroney said in a statement that these sections of the highway 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. Trending Stories
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The story goes on under the ad 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 speed limit on a test basis, 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. © 2022 The Canadian Press
