We wouldn’t believe it if we hadn’t seen it with our own eyes. Here’s a picture we took of the 110 km/h speed limit sign on Hwy 401 headed west to Toronto from Shannonville.
Driving in Ontario has been getting worse for years. Big Brother style automatic speed cameras to punish minor transgressions. Narrowing roads to insert bike lanes that even cyclists don’t want to use. Four-lane arterial roads with speed limits set at a ridiculous 40 km/h with speed cameras enforcing unjust laws.
Despite this trend, the Ontario government has remarkably increased the speed limit on sections of Hwy 401 from 100 to 110 km/h, the speed these highways were designed for, including well-traveled routes: around the Greater Toronto Area:
- Hwy 401 from the 35/115 to Cobourg
- Hwy 401 from Colborne to Belleville
- Hwy 401 from Belleville to Kingston
- Hwy 401 from Hwy 16 to the Quebec border boundary
No matter what people think of Premier Doug Ford and his tactics, he has his finger on the pulse of Ontario voters. First he scrapped license plate ‘stickers‘ which were just an indirect tax on motorists; now after a pilot project in 2022 he’s raised speed limits on provincial highways.
Even conservative countries like Denmark has higher speed limits outside metropolitan areas (as high as 130 km/h) which are based on actual road design and not arbitrary, across the board limits. Has common sense arrived in Canada, too?