This website is powered by VoteMate
This is a page from the 2025 Ontario general election.
Looking for the 2025 Canadian general election? Click here.
Transportation & Transit

Highways and roads platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.

PC

  • Invest up to $15B more in key capital projects over three years

    "Investing up to $15 billion more over three years to speed up key capital projects, including widening the QEW between Burlington and St. Catharines." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Expand Highway 11 from Temiskaming Shores to Cochrane with a 2+1 highway design

    "The Ontario PCs have already begun the process of widening Highway 11 from North Bay to Temiskaming Shores, with initial work set to begin on Highway 11 between Sand Dam Road and Ellesmere Road, and between Highway 64 and Jumping Caribou Road. If re-elected, the PCs will extend the 2+1 highway another 220 kilometres from Temiskaming Shores to Cochrane, with a new passing lane that changes direction every two to five kilometres. This expanded highway will improve highway safety and make travel more efficient and convenient for northern drivers." — ontariopc.com, retrieved 2025-02-23

  • Invest nearly $350M in local infrastructure for Ottawa

    "The New Deal with Ottawa includes nearly $350 million for local infrastructure, including:

    $56 million to upgrade and repair Highway 174 prior to it being uploaded to the province.

    $50 million to upgrade rural roads and highways outside the downtown core.

    More than $50 million to design and build a new interchange at Highway 416 and Barnsdale Road.

    $80 million to support the Kanata North Transitway." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Widen the Queen Elizabeth Way between Burlington and St. Catharines

    "In Niagara Region, Ford said that a re-elected PC government would widen the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) between Burlington and St. Catharines to keep people working and help get drivers out of gridlock." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Remove tolls from Highway 407 East

    "Taking tolls off Highway 407 East, which runs between Brock Road in Pickering and Highway 115 in Clarington, saving daily commuters $7,200 every year." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Take over ownership and maintenance of Highway 174
  • Raise highway speed limits to a minimum of 110km/h

    "Raise highway speed limits to a minimum of 110 km per hour across the provincial highway network." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Build a new driver and transit expressway by tunnelling under Highway 401

    "Today, Ontario PC leader Doug Ford announced that a re-elected PC government will fight gridlock, improve economic competitiveness and create new jobs for workers by tunnelling under Highway 401 to build a new driver and transit expressway. As part of the $15 billion in new infrastructure investments to keep people working, a re-elected PC government will also invest more to speed up new transportation infrastructure projects for the region.

    The Highway 401 tunnel expressway will include both vehicle and transit lanes and will extend beyond Brampton and Mississauga in the west to beyond Markham and Scarborough in the east. It will be one of the largest, most ambitious infrastructure projects in the world." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Prioritise new interchanges at Banwell Road and EC. Row Expressway, and at Highway 401 and the Lauzon Parkway extension

    "In Windsor and Essex, a re-elected PC government will prioritize the construction of a new interchange at Banwell Road and E.C. Row Expressway, as well as a new interchange at Highway 401 and the Lauzon Parkway extension that will support trade between the U.S. and Canada." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Rehabilitate several of Highway 401's lanes

    "Rehabilitating Highway 401’s eastbound core and collector lanes from Victoria Park Avenue to Neilson Road, including adding an additional lane at the Kennedy Road interchange.

    Rehabilitating Highway 401’s eastbound express lanes from Avenue Road to Ward Avenue, including bridge replacements at the Leslie Street and Bayview Avenue interchanges." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Allow all vehicles to use HOV lanes during off-peak hours

    "Reform High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes to open lanes to all vehicles during off-peak hours." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

ONDP

  • Expand Highway 40 to Sarnia
  • Take back financial responsibility for formerly provincially-owned controlled-access highways and "Connecting Link" highways

    "The province will take back financial responsibility for formerly provincially owned controlled-access highways and for “Connecting Link” highways whose costs were unfairly downloaded onto municipalities, like the EC Row Expressway in Windsor." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Widen Highway 11/17 and Highway 69, and build the Cochrane Bypass
  • Add concrete safety barriers to the most dangerous section of Highway 401

    "We’ll expand highway 40 to Sarnia and fix Carnage Alley, the most dangerous section of Hwy 401, where the Ford government failed to prioritize concrete safety barriers." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • End private highway maintenance contracts

    "We will put an end to private highway maintenance contracts that have been a disaster for Ontario drivers and bring snow clearance and highway maintenance back under public control." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Bring driver licensing back under the Ministry of Transportation, and increase training for truck drivers to prepare them for snowy winters

    "We’ll also make sure truck drivers receive increased training, so they are prepared for Ontario’s snowy winters, especially in Northern Ontario." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

    "We’ll also bring driver licensing back under the Ministry of Transportation to ensure there is accountability for truck drivers who need increased training to be prepared for Ontario’s snowy winters, especially in Northern Ontario." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Liberal

  • Invest in municipal and regional road repair and maintenance
  • Improve winter maintenance of key provincial highways
  • Widen provincial highways in congested areas

Green

  • Prevent flooding by stopping the paving of wetlands, including by banning 400 series highways in the Greenbelt

    "In addition to supporting farmers by stopping the paving of prime farmland, we’ll also protect your basement from flooding by stopping the paving of wet- lands. Wetlands act as a critical buffer to protect our homes from flooding, absorbing rainwater during intense storms that are only increasing in intensity, frequency and cost due to climate change. Unfortunately, Doug Ford’s approach of destroying wetlands with wasteful projects like Highway 413, and his attack on Conservation Authorities, is increasing the risk of your home flooding in the next big storm. In addition to protecting wetlands, we’ll make it easier for families to flood-proof their basements with zero-interest loans, and support cities to spruce up their roads, bridges and buildings to be ready for the next torrential downpour." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Looking for the parties' positions on other topics?

See our full 2025 Ontario election platform comparison