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Manitoba increases highway speed limits

The province of Manitoba will enact a higher speed limit July 1 on some highways.

Ron Lemieux, Minister of Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation, said the higher speed limit is not an invitation to speed, however. Lemieux made a second announcement that the province was increasing fines for all speeding infractions.

The higher speed limit of 110 kilometers per hour, or 68 mph, will replace the current 100 km/h, or 62 mph, limit on Provincial Highway 1 from the Saskatchewan border to Virden, and on Provincial Highway 75 from the U.S. border crossing at Emerson/Pembina, ND, to the community of St. Jean Baptiste.

The new limit applies to cars and trucks. Speeding fines will be increased by a minimum of $27 up to $171 depending on the speed and type of infraction.

The speed-limiter mandate enacted in nearby Ontario and further east in Quebec clashes with the new Manitoba limit of 110 km/h, as Ontario and Quebec have forced trucks to be governed at 105 km/h, or about 65 mph.

The provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick now have at least some highways with speed limits of 110 km/h.


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