Dear Editor:This is an open letter to Temiskaming Shores City Council.Dear Mayor & Council Members: I thought it should be brought to your attention that there is a major issue with your beautiful new city signs, which have been installed throughout the area,
Dear Editor:City councilors were told that the traffic volumes fall short of the criteria reclassification of Highway 11 between North Bay and Cochrane.On a mild Saturday in February, my husband and I sat in our living room facing Highway 11 north and southbound.Believe it or not, we counted 141 transports
Dear Editor:We are Northern Ontarians. We breathe, we eat, we sleep. We are living citizens of Ontario like any other. We are all first class, so I believe our main highway (Hwy.11) should be first class as well.There are six classes of highways in Ontario with a Class One highway
Dear Editor:The longer the sorry state of Highway 11 continues, the more it points to a major, if not reckless duty-of-care failure by the Ontario government.For starters, and well before it cancelled The Northlander train service, the Ontario government should have implemented a properly funded program to ensure that Highway
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter Public pressure driving improved maintenance: MPPDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter EARLTON – Public pressure is a key to improving winter road maintenance, says Temiskaming’s MPP.“If you get enough complaints and they make sense, that’s how you move things forward,” New Democrat MPP John Vanthof told civic leaders at the Temiskaming Municipal
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — In the face of numerous accidents and road closures on Highway 11 recently, The Speaker contacted the Ontario Ministry of Transportation to ask about winter road maintenance standards on the highway.MTO spokesperson Gordan Rennie responded and outlined the standards the MTO responds to during the winter.SALTThere
No one was injured when a southbound tractor-trailer suddenly crossed Highway 11 south of the rail crossing outside Temagami at about 10:45 a.m. Sunday, January 5. The truck came to rest in the north ditch in deep snow and facing north after striking a utility pole. The Temagami fire department
