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A mock disaster training exercise for Huron County's emergency services involving a car colliding with a train took place near Clinton on May 15, 2025. (Scott Miller/CTV News London)
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Highway 138 upgrades are coming, province tells town hall held after woman's death
Social Sharing Major upgrades to Highway 138 are on track to begin in 2028, the Ontario government announced Saturday at a packed town hall in Moose Creek, Ont., where locals called for safety improvements to the highway. The new timeline for safety upgrades, which will include the addition of new passing and turning lanes, comes amid growing pressure from nearby residents after the death of Amanda Maloney, a 33-year-old Moose Creek woman, in a three-vehicle collision in March. "I hope that the officials see that we are a group of people that want change," said Pascal Quesnel, the ex-partner of Maloney and father of her two children, at Saturday's meeting. "Hopefully it comes, and we don't need to wait forever for them." Traffic getting heavier Highway 138 is a roughly 36-kilometre single-lane highway that stretches between Highway 417 and Cornwall, Ont. An online petition advocating for safety improvements to the highway, dubbed Project Amanda, has garnered more than 7,000 signatures. But calls to improve safety on the highway, which has seen several fatal collisions over the last decade, are longstanding. Traffic is also getting heavier. A burgeoning logistics industry in the region means more trucks on Highway 138. Local politicians are also raising concerns that a new Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park planned for Cornwall will further increase traffic. Cornwall-area politicians, drivers lament latest Hwy. 138 work delays A 2017 report from consulting firm Stantec proposed more than two dozen recommendations for improving the highway, from new turning lanes to roundabouts, carpool lots and flood mitigation infrastructure. Although the final year of that ten-year plan is fast approaching, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has thus far implemented only a few of the recommendations. 'Immediate' solutions At the Moose Creek town hall, some residents were unimpressed with the province's timeline. "I think the majority of the people in this whole region want a far more immediate response to this," said Garfield Dunlop. "I was looking for someone to stand up and say, we've got to do something now." Dunlop's preferred short-term solution would be to put up a flashing amber light to slow drivers. But several others who took the mic floated a range of inexpensive solutions, from installing a photo radar camera to putting up "emotional" signs that would remind drivers of past tragedies on the road. "Right now [change] is on the desks," said Rachelle Chrétien, who lost her niece in a collision on the highway in 2020. "I think it's up to the people, up to the communities, up to the counties to continue pushing."
CTV News
14 hours ago
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‘It looks amazing': Restoration of 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible for Princess Elizabeth tour finished
One of the 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles that Canada bought for Princess Elizabeth's tour is seen on June 21, 2025, after being restored by students at NAIT in Edmonton. (Galen McDougall / CTV News Edmonton) One of the 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles that Canada bought for Princess Elizabeth's tour that year has been restored to its former glory. The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology students who did the work over this school year revealed it to owner Ron Lyons on Saturday. 'I was flabbergasted. It looks amazing,' Lyons said in an interview with CTV News Edmonton. 'I think the kids in the program here did an amazing job restoring it and invested a lot of time and effort. It turned out beautiful.' According to NAIT auto body instructor Ryan Pomedli, the car was one of 60 the Canadian government bought for the future queen. Lyons, owner of the Legends Golf and Country Club east of Edmonton, purchased it in 2024 for the club's Golf Car Museum. Having worked with NAIT to restore other vehicles for some 20 years, he was familiar with the caliber of work done by the NAIT program – yet still impressed by the students' latest efforts. Expand Autoplay 1 of 3 Ron Lyons & 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible Ron Lyons stands in front of his 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible that was restored by NAIT students in Edmonton in 2025. (Galen McDougall / CTV News Edmonton) 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible A view of the interior of one of the 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles that Canada bought for Princess Elizabeth's tour that year and restored by NAIT students in Edmonton in 2025. (Galen McDougall / CTV News Edmonton) 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible A plate on a restored 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles, one of 60 that Canada bought for Princess Elizabeth's tour that year, reads 1951. (Galen McDougall / CTV News Edmonton) 'My car was in pretty decent shape when I first got it, but they took it up to another level – like, to an elite level.' Of entrusting his restoration projects to NAIT, Lyons added, 'It's not really the past, it's the future, right?' 'Having good, safe vehicles and properly repaired, and all that is important to the industry… At NAIT, the kids are properly trained. They're respectful. They have a beautiful, clean shop. They have the best equipment. They have the best instructors. And there's 80 of them going out into the industry and making the car industry safer.' One of those students, second-year Beverly Burke, was one of the last to work on the convertible. Her group sandblasted and painted the wheels. 'It's a once in a lifetime opportunity,' she said. 'Cars built in the 1950s, they don't build them like they do now.' Lyons plans on showing off the project at a few shows this summer before putting it on display at his club's museum. He told CTV News Edmonton, 'I have a nice spot for this. It's gonna have its own little bay.' With files from CTV News Edmonton's Galen McDougall
CTV News
16 hours ago
- CTV News
North Stormont community calling for changes to Highway 138 after fatal crash
A memorial for Amanda Maloney erected on Highway 138 at Dyer Road after she was killed in a crash on March 29. (Dylan Dyson/CTV News Ottawa) Residents in North Stormont came together Saturday to call for safety changes to Highway 138. Back in March near the community of Moose Creek, local resident Amanda Maloney was killed in a collision involving two tractor trailers at the intersection of Dyer Road. 'On March 29, we lost a cherished member of our community, Amanda Maloney, who was killed while attempting to navigate a dangerous turn on Highway 138,' said Cara Sabourin, who organized a town hall Saturday morning featuring police, the Ministry of Transportation (MTO), local politicians and community members. The provincial highway is a key corridor for commuters between Cornwall and Ottawa. In recent years, the roadway has seen traffic increase exponentially with Walmart, the Amazon distribution centre and Calypso waterpark nearby. A Great Wolf Lodge is planned to be built in the future. 'Every single person pretty well has had a near miss on that highway, and most of them more than once,' said Martin Lang, warden of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Highway 138 Highway 138 in eastern Ontario is pictured in this April 2, 2025 photo. (Dave Charbonneau/CTV News Ottawa) Bringing good news was local MPP Nolan Quinn, who said a long-standing report for redesigning the highway was set to be pushed forward in the coming months. 'The whole report, including passing lanes. One set of passing lanes north, one set of passing lane south, left hand turning lanes, slip lanes, lines of sight as well. That will be starting this summer.' The redesign to Highway 138 would also feature road widening and snow drift fences along farmers' fields. Frustratingly for residents, this work is not scheduled until May 2028. 'I'm happy that there's going to be turning lanes at that intersection because that that is the reason why she died was because there wasn't one,' said Sabourin. 'I'm a bit disappointed to hear of how long it's taking for some of those changes.' With planned changes three years down the road, residents who spoke at Saturday's town hall called for more immediate, low budget solutions, such as amber lights at intersections, more marked police cruisers patrolling the highway and emotional signage reminding drivers of past tragedies. A representative with the MTO who joined the town hall virtually said previous studies by the ministry have found that stop lights and amber lights along Highway 138 are not been warranted by the volume of turning vehicles. 'I really like the emotional signage,' said Ontario Provincial Police acting superintendent Stephan Neufeld, who was in attendance Saturday. 'I refer to the Remember Adam project that started in that community in Mattawa. That certainly makes every time I drive on Highway 17 and I see that it, makes me think. So, I think there's a lot of value in that emotional signage.' Neufeld says the 138 is the most patrolled roadway by the OPP in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Since 2022, there have been 247 collisions on Highway 138 including two deaths. 'It's the enforcement piece, which is the key role for the OPP, and the education piece,' Neufeld said of the OPP's place in ensuring safety along Highway 138. 'The education piece, that's a journey, that's not a destination. Education never ends. Whether it's signage, whether it's getting out to new drivers that are just starting out.' While the community waits for construction to begin on the highway, fellow town hall organizer Amanda Brownrigg has been working to erect a monument at the Moose Creek community centre in Maloney's memory. 'I want a bench for her. I want a bench at the park so her girls can see how much she was appreciated, see how much she was loved.'
