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400 series highway limit increased.

Pax will be able to get home sooner and tip bigger.

Although...
Dude if your going to report on something do it properly.
Its a pilot project and its
Highway 402 from London to Sarnia
QEW from St. Catharines to Hamilton
Highway 417 from Ottawa/Gloucester to Ontario/Quebec border

Nothing to do with Toronto.
 

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The flow of traffic on the 401 is usually 120kph. If they're going to implement this pilot they should do it on all highways where people routinely drive 110 and over. Highway cops with radars already have the data as they monitor speeds all day (allowing people to drive 120 without pulling them over). What other data can they collect from a limited 2-year pilot other than to see how increased speeds may or may not cause more accidents and fatalities? I think it's pretty obvious that higher speeds will cause more accidents and fatalities.

This is a half-assed attempt at a project that won't decrease our commute times, nor will it make our highways safer. I'd like to think they could come up with something better... if they actually tried..
 

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Dude if your going to report on something do it properly.
Its a pilot project and its
Highway 402 from London to Sarnia
QEW from St. Catharines to Hamilton
Highway 417 from Ottawa/Gloucester to Ontario/Quebec border

Nothing to do with Toronto.
And it doesn't start until SEPTEMBER 2019

The flow of traffic on the 401 is usually 120kph. If they're going to implement this pilot they should do it on all highways where people routinely drive 110 and over. Highway cops with radars already have the data as they monitor speeds all day (allowing people to drive 120 without pulling them over). What other data can they collect from a limited 2-year pilot other than to see how increased speeds may or may not cause more accidents and fatalities? I think it's pretty obvious that higher speeds will cause more accidents and fatalities.

This is a half-assed attempt at a project that won't decrease our commute times, nor will it make our highways safer. I'd like to think they could come up with something better... if they actually tried..
I agree with everything you said. I feel they should have gone to 120kph and started ticketing at 125kph and higher, zero tolerance beyond 125. Mainly you will not be pulled over on 400 series if you are below 125 currently anyway, so the pilot would test to see if people started driving 135 when limit was raised to 120. But they backed off for this reason:
110kph limit was decided because that is what other Provinces use on their highways (Alberta, Manitoba, etc.)
 

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Gotta watch for that newcomer driving 80km/hr on the passing lane though
It's shocking how many people don't know about the passing lane. If people were more aware of it it would help with the flow of traffic and keep us safer. I hope they stay to their word when they say they'll increase fines for people who drive slow in the passing lane..

But they backed off for this reason:
110kph limit was decided because that is what other Provinces use on their highways (Alberta, Manitoba, etc.)
It's as if they don't know what they're trying to accomplish so they just do something without even thinking it through. It seems pointless..
 

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It's as if they [Ontario Gov't] don't know what they're trying to accomplish so they just do something without even thinking it through. It seems pointless..
The Ford Gov't idiom is: 'Pointless.' He is penny wise and pound poor:
  • Buck A Beer - nobody can make a good product with any profit at that price point in 2019.
  • Sue Feds about Carbon Tax (Costing Tax Payers millions of $)
  • Allow Beer in Costco/ConvenienceStores (Costing Tax Payers millions of $ due to Brewers Retail breach of contract)
  • Cut public Health (insuring far more down the road stress on Hospital system, costing taxpayers millions of $)
  • Cut green energy programs (costing taxpayers millions of dollars importing Saudi Oil, and having to offload excess Nuke electricity that could be charging EVs overnight)
  • Change License Plate slogan (costing taxpayers thousands of dollars, for no apparent reason, now that his propaganda has failed
  • Stickers promoting his agenda on gas pumps (which is dumb, as the gas pumps already have the 'tax portion' sticker on them in a neutral, non partisan way.
 

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Everything he proposes that is supposed to be “for the people” is window dressing to appeal to the lowest common denominator

The beer is the dumbest one.

Cheap beer in a yellow “no name” carton is all that remains from “buck a beer”. On what planet did he think that prices from 2004 could be replicated in 2018? Everything has increased in price, why wouldn’t beer?
 

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This 110km/h pilot project is a waste of time and energy - tinkering will not do a darn thing. Either keep it the same or allow 130/km/h and anything over by 1km gets an auto ticket.

Otherwise why bother. The real problem with the setup right now is that we don’t treat the fast and slow lanes as they should be. Enforce that and you’ll see traffic improve a lot.
 
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