Auditor general agrees – winter road maintenance declinedDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TORONTO — The Ontario Minister of Transportation has promised a better winter highway maintenance plan, to be delivered within the next two months.The promise came after the Ontario auditor general reported that the provincial government’s
Winter Highway MaintenanceA report by the Ontario Auditor General confirmed last week what many of us have long thought: winter highway maintenance has deteriorated since the provincial government began contracting out the work.“Over the past five years, winter highway maintenance service levels have declined
Liberals knowingly put lives at riskDear Editor:On April 29, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk released a special report on Winter Highway Maintenance in Ontario. The report is damning, on all accounts. Northerners will not be surprised by her findings that the standards of winter maintenance have gone down
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
