Northern Ontario politicians are urgently appealing to the federal government for help during one of the deadliest winters on record along 2,000 kilometres of highway between Nipigon, Sudbury and North Bay.

In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Northwestern Ontario Municipalities Association (NOMA) is urging the government to designate the stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway — both Highway 11 and Highway 17 — as dual-use national infrastructure.

That would tap into the federal government's plan to spend more on defence-related infrastructure while fulfilling a years-old request from northwestern Ontarians to shore up the sole land connector between Eastern and Western Canada.

"We need to get the attention of the federal government to say: listen, we need you to invest," said Rick Dumas, the mayor of Marathon, Ont., and president of the Northwestern Ontario Municipalities Association (NOMA).

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Besides the obvious problem with building literally thousands of kilometres through remote areas and the impact to natural dark in the area, street lights don’t help with snow, or rain, or fog. It just adds to the glare.

NaCl road salt stops working at -10, not -30.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

When I living in Kingston years ago they had started switching to liquid salt brine for the roads to help stop contaminating the marshes and lakes.

I dunno it they still do that tho.