TIMMINS - Reduced load restrictions on certain roads start this week.
To protect the roads, the City of Timmins limits how heavy a load commercial motor vehicles and trails can carry during the spring thaw. The restrictions go into effect on Friday, March 21.
Typically, half-load restrictions are in until mid-June, unless the city lifts it early.
The city is using the Ministry of Transportation's reduced load period table for the restrictions.
"The table uses frost depth, moisture, and daily air temperatures to indicate when reduced load restrictions should be put in place and when they can be lifted. This ensures that the city’s road infrastructure is protected, while supporting the trucking and haulage industry by removed reduced load restrictions when appropriate," reads a city news release.
The local roads the seasonal restrictions apply to are:
Ward 1
- Shirley Street from Lafleur Drive to northerly limit
- Government Road North from Highway 101 to northerly limit
- Jaguar Road from Government Road South to northerly limit
- Mahoney Road from southerly limit to northerly limit
- Sandy Falls Road from easterly limit to westerly limit
- Kraft Creek Road from Airport Road to westerly limit
- Garden Road from Government Road South to Wallingford Road
- Wallingford Road from Garden Road to westerly and easterly limit
- Government Road South from Highway 101 to Highway 101
- Dalton Road from Cameron Street to Wawaitan Falls
- McLean Drive from Timmins Gravel entrance to northerly limit
- Dorans Road from Laforest Road to northerly limit
- Norman Street from Paul Avenue to northerly limit
- Leclair Avenue from Kamiskotia Road to southerly limit
- Kamiskotia Road from two-kilometres from Highway 101 to northerly limit
Ward 2
- Langmuir Road from Dome Street to Redstone Bridge
Ward 4
- Camp Waskesiu (Ice Chest Lake Road) from southerly limit to northerly limit
- Gibson Lake Road from Highway 101 to city limits
- Carrigan Road from Highway 101 to Frederick House Lake Road
- Connaught Road from Highway 101 to Frederick House Lake Road
- Finn Road from Highway 67 (Municipal Road) to end
- Little Road from Frederick House Lake Road to end
- Gervais Street from Gauthier Street south to end
- Division Street from Rekela Street to Florence Street
- Rekela Street from Division Street to Ferguson Road
- Ferguson Road from Rekela Street to Crawford Street
- Crawford Street from Harold Street to Ferguson Road
- Frederick House Lake Road from one-kilometre east of Highway 101 to Highway 67 (Municipal Road)
- Nighthawk Peninsula from Highway 101 southerly
- Florence Street from Highway 101 East to northerly limit
- Shaw Creek Road from Gold Mine Road to southerly limit
Year-round restrictions on heavy loads are in place for 11 roads.
The roads affected are Hydro Bay Road, Anderson Drive, Quirion Road, Davis Road, Jack Pine Road, Girl Guide Road, Racicot Road, McInnis Lake Road, Charland Road, Bertrand Road, and Urquhart Road. Commercial vehicles and trailers are limited to five tons per axle. For heavier loads, people on these roads have to apply for a city exemption.