Complaints about winter road maintenance of northern Ontario highways have reached Queen's Park.NDP critic Gilles Bisson calls the condition of many roads "atrocious."
Bisson says there have more highway closures and accidents this winter than ever before, and he's
convinced the province's standards for snow clearing are not being met.
Bisson blames the fact the ministry of transportation uses private snow plow operators and has also privatized the monitoring of highways to determine when they need to be salted or cleared.
Transportation Minister Glen Murray says the province's standards for clearing snow off highways have not changed and are being met.
