TransCanada Highway Improvements
WHEREAS the TransCanada highway is an increasingly important part of our Northern Ontario economic base, and improvements which increase traffic volume on the highway have positive economic development outcomes;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT NOMA petitions the Province of Ontario to take the following steps to reduce the leakage of trans-national traffic to United States highway routes:
1. Recognize our long distances by raising the speed limit on all
our highways by 10 km per hour, making it more consistent with other
jurisdictions;
2. Provide more scenic pullouts, more public washrooms and garbage
receptacles at all pullouts;
3. Provide wide, obstacle-free, gently sloping verges, where practical, in all
highway reconstruction projects, to reduce the severity of off-the-road incidents and
wild animal encounters;
4. Incorporate four lane divided highways as the standard design for at least part of the
highway maintenance/replacement program; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT a copy of this resolution be forwarded the Minister of Transportation, the Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry, to all Northwestern Ontario municipalities, the Northwestern Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Common Voice Northwest, and regional MPPs for support.
Adopted April 2010
