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Bill 59, Making Northern Ontario Highways Safer Act, 2022

Bourgouin, Guy

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The

Bill amends the Public Transportation and Highway

Improvement Act in relation to standards for road maintenance in winter.

New

section 100 sets out a classification system for Ontario highways

consisting of five classes of highways. The

section classifies all 400 series

highways, the QEW highway and highways 11 and 17 as Class 1 highways. The

section also sets out the time within which snow must be removed from each

class of highway after each snowfall. Class 1 highways have the strictest

requirements for snow removal, requiring that the pavement be bare of snow

within eight hours of the end of a snowfall.

Bill 59 2021

Act to amend the Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act to make northern

Ontario highways safer

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

The Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act

is amended by adding the following section:

Winter

road maintenance

(1) The

Minister shall ensure that, after snow has fallen on a highway, the snow is

removed in accordance with this section.

Class

of highway

(2) For

the purposes of this section, the following classes of highway are established:

1. Class

1, being any freeway, any highway with at least four lanes or any highway that,

having regard to traffic volume or traffic quality, qualifies as a Class 1

highway.

2. Class

2, being any major highway that is not a Class 1 highway.

3. Class

3, being an intermediate highway.

4. Class

4, being a minor highway.

5. Class

5, being a local highway.

Classification

(3) The

Minister shall make a regulation classifying all highways within the

jurisdiction of the Ministry based on the quality and quantity of traffic on

the highway and such other criteria as may be prescribed, subject to subsection

(4).

Class

1 highways

(4) The

following highways are Class 1 highways for purposes of this section:

1. Any

highway that is a 400 series highway.

2. The

QEW highway.

3. Highway

11 and highway 17, including portions of those highways that only have two

lanes.

Bare

pavement standard

(5) Every

highway of the following class shall meet the following snow removal standard

after the end of a snowfall:

1. Class

1 — the entire pavement shall be bare of snow within eight hours of the end of

the snowfall.

2. Class

2 — the entire pavement shall be bare of snow within 16 hours of the end of the

snowfall.

3. Class

3 — the entire pavement shall be bare of snow within 24 hours of the end of the

snowfall.

4. Class

4 — a strip of 2.5 metres in the centre of the highway shall be bare of snow

within 24 hours of the end of the snowfall.

5. Class

5 — the highway shall be plowed to a snow-packed driving surface within 24

hours of the end of the snowfall and sand shall be applied to improve friction.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the

Lieutenant Governor.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Making Northern Ontario

Highways Safer Act, 2021 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

February 24, 2022

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

February 24, 2022

Second Reading

Vote

Carried on division

February 23, 2022

Second Reading

Deferred vote

February 23, 2022

Second Reading

Debated

December 1, 2021

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

December 1, 2021

Committee

Second Reading

February 23, 2022

Guy Bourgouin, Mr. Vijay Thanigasalam, Mr. Jamie West, Ms. Judith Monteith-Farrell, Mme France Gélinas, Mr. Sol Mamakwa, Mr. Gilles Bisson, Mr. Michael Mantha, Mr. John Vanthof, Mr. Stephen Blais

Vote deferred.

February 24, 2022

Carried on division. Referred to Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

Committee

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

Third Reading

Royal Assent

Acts affected - Bill 59

Most Ontario public acts are available electronically; to view copies of the Acts to be amended by this bill visit e-laws

Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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