CAA is once again looking for Canada’s worst roads.
Last year, Barrydowne Road made the list of the North’s worst roads, as did Third Avenue West in North Bay and Tokio Street in Thunder Bay.
CAA’s Worst Roads campaign has measured public sentiment on the state of highways and non-highways since 2003. In Ontario, the campaign allows consumers to vote daily at CAAWorstRoads.com.
Votes for CAA’s Worst Roads can be cast from March 22 until April 19. Participants will be entered for a grand-prize draw to win free gas for a year.
Once voting is closed, CAA will compile a list of the Top 10 Worst Roads in Ontario, and the worst roads in regions across the province. The regional top five lists will help shine a light on the state of local roads in municipalities across Ontario.
CAA will present the list of 2022 Worst Roads to local and provincial officials to help inform future funding and planning decisions.
While traffic conditions and road usage changes every year, making it hard to predict where the next worst road will be, Carling Ave has always been in the top 10 in Ontario.
There are 156,000 km of poor and very poor roads in Canada, said CAA in a press release. Canada has more than 1 million kilometres of roads.
In Ontario, there are 1,068 km of poor and very poor highways and 31,366 km in non-highways. “That’s a grand total of 32,434 km of roads in pretty bad condition,” said CAA in the release.
Close to half (43 per cent) of Canadian roads are rated below average.
