Ontario Raising Highway Speed Limits
- Our government is raising the speed limit permanently from 100 km/h to 110 km/h on 10 additional sections of provincial highways in northern and southern Ontario.
- The change builds on the safe and successful increase to six sections of provincial highways in 2022 and algins with posted speed limits in other jurisdications across Canada.
- Most of Ontario’s highways were originally designed to safely accommodate speed limits of 110 km/h and data from our changes in 2022 show they do just that.
- These evidence-based increases are a common-sense change to make life more convenient for Ontario drivers while bringing our highway speed limits in line with other Canadian provinces.
- The permanent increase in speed will cover 36 per cent and 860 kilometres of Ontario’s highway network.
- All highway sections were selected based on their ability to safely accommodate higher speed limits
- Speed limit changes:
- Hwy 401, Tilbury, extending the existing 110 km/h zone further east by 7 km
- Hwy 401 from Hwy 35/115 to Cobourg (approximately 35 km)
- Hwy 401 from Colborne to Belleville (approximately 44 km)
- Hwy 401 from Belleville to Kingston (approximately 66 km)
- Hwy 401 from Hwy 16 to Quebec boundary (approximately 107 km)
- Hwy 403 from Woodstock to Brantford (approximately 26 km)
- Hwy 403 from Brantford to Hamilton (approximately 14.5 km)
- Hwy 406 from Thorold to Welland (approximately 13 km)
- Hwy 416 from Hwy 401 to Ottawa (approximately 70 km)
- Hwy 69 from Sudbury to French River (approximately 60 km)