{"id":101279,"date":"2025-08-27T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101279\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:15:10","slug":"ontario-is-the-costly-weak-link-in-the-trans-canada-highway-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101279\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario is the costly weak link in the Trans-Canada Highway, group says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities wants northern section of highway designated as nation-building project<\/p>\n<p>Ontario is the weak link in the national highway system and it is costing too many lives and too much money to continue, the <a href=\"https:\/\/fonom.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM)<\/a> said in a news release this week.<\/p>\n<p>FONOM is urging the federal and Ontario governments to modernize the\u00a0Trans-Canada Highway (Highways 11 and 17) across Northern Ontario \u201cand designate it as a\u00a0nation-building project under the Building Canada Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the release, FONOM said unlike the four-lane commercial routes available in other provinces, much of the Trans-Canada through Ontario is still only two lanes, \u201cwith some of the highest fatality and collision rates in Canada.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calling each crash a \u201chuman tragedy\u201d, FONOM said each crash is also expensive, disrupting more than 8,400 trucks moving $200 million in goods daily, adding that truck traffic is expected to double in the next decade, making the urgency of addressing the issue even greater.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOntario cannot remain the weak link in Canada\u2019s national highway system,\u201d said FONOM\u00a0president Danny Whalen in the news release. \u201cThis project is about saving lives, supporting our economy, and\u00a0 ensuring national security. It is not just Northern Ontario\u2019s issue \u2014 it\u2019s Canada\u2019s.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organization said it would like to see a \u201ctoolbox approach\u201d to Trans-Canada Highway improvements in the North, including strategic four-lane widening, selective twinning and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sudbury.com\/local-news\/northern-leaders-want-highways-11-17-made-into-21-corridors-10972038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2+1 highways<\/a> \u201cto improve safety, reduce costs and minimize environmental impacts along the 3,000-kilometre corridor from Qu\u00e9bec to Manitoba.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project is vital to upcoming national priorities, including the Ring of Fire, the NWMO\u00a0(Nuclear Waste Management Organization) nuclear facility in Ignace, expanded St. Lawrence port activity, and proposals for a James\u00a0Bay port,\u201d FONOM said.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the idea has the support of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) and the Eastern Ontario Wardens&#8217;\u00a0Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>FONOM is leading the first phase and seeking partnerships with governments, industry and investors, the group added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada has a proud history of building infrastructure that unites the country,\u201d Whalen said.\u00a0 \u201cNow is the time to make this investment for the future of our nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities wants northern section of highway designated as nation-building project Ontario is the weak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,58560,39297,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-101279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-federation-of-northern-ontario-municipalities-fonomtrans-canada-highway-systemtrans-canada-highway-system-improvement-northern-ontarionation-building-trans-canada-highway-proposal","11":"tag-fonom","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}