Letter: Highway safety a concern across northern Ontario

There have been multiple fatal collisions involving transports on northern highways this winter

I wanted to reach out to those commuters who use highways from North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins and all the small communities along those routes.

The NDP has requested that the Ford government needs to take action on the matter regarding accidents, driving behaviour and especially the training that is required in order to make these “new" drivers understand safety. I have seen all kinds of crazy acts by some transport drivers such as; driving over the yellow line, hitting the shoulder, passing on a hill or transports driving so close to each other that the identity signs on the rear doors can almost be touched.

I would also like to mention, that over the years of my travelling to Thunder Bay, I can count with the fingers on my hand the number of times where the MTO scale inspection stations were in full operation. Also these stations are not open into the early hours past midnight — so the transport drivers pass by them with no complications.

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