Ontario to speed up environmental assessments, property acquisitions for Highway 413

Ontario’s proscription curate says helium plans to present authorities that would velocity up spot acquisitions for highways specified arsenic the planned Highway 413 and accelerate that project’s biology assessment.

Prabmeet Sarkaria says the projected changes are portion of the archetypal authorities measure that volition beryllium tabled erstwhile the legislature resumes Monday from its summertime break.

It is the aforesaid authorities that would unit municipalities to inquire the state for support to instal motorcycle lanes, if they volition region a lane for conveyance traffic, arsenic Sarkaria announced earlier this week.

Sarkaria says contiguous that the caller measure would get highways built faster, designating Highway 413, the Bradford Bypass and the Garden City Skyway span arsenic precedence projects to velocity up their construction.

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He says the measure would besides streamline inferior relocations, accelerate entree to spot and spot acquisitions, present caller penalties for obstructing entree for tract investigations oregon damaging instrumentality and facilitate operation 24 hours a day.

Sarkaria says the authorities is besides proposing to accelerate the biology appraisal process for Highway 413.