Expected snow storm halts driving tests

Snowfall anticipated for Friday is buying time for some people who were scheduled to take driving tests.

Nineteen Ontario DriveTest centres have cancelled tests all day and three more have delayed start times.

Snow is expected to hit Windsor and nearby areas just after midnight and move east by early Friday. By late afternoon it will stop snowing in Toronto, according to an Environment Canada special weather statement.

Toronto is expected to get 10 centimetres of snow.

The hardest hit areas, near the lower Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, are predicted to see between five and 15 centimetres of the white stuff.

Road tests are cancelled in Etobicoke, Brampton, Oakville, Woodbridge, Downsview, Aurora, Lindsay, Bancroft, Kingston, Cornwall, Windsor, Chatham, Hamilton, Burlington, Brantford, Simcoe, Woodstock, Tillsonburg and St. Catharines.

Tests scheduled in Oshawa, Port Union and Metro East will be starting late.

Updates are available at drivetest.ca.

Comments

[John Cavan]

Absurd! If they're going to drive in Canada, they have to drive in this weather. If they aren't prepared to do that, then they shouldn't be licensed anyways. This is the sort of thinking that has led to the idiocy that clogs the GTA roads as people who are totally incapable of handling the Canadian winter continue to drive in it and do it poorly.

While I'm at it, would traffic reporters please stop blaming the weather for traffic conditions. Rain, shine, snow, cloudy, it's all the same result: bad traffic. The weather isn't the problem, the bad drivers on the road are the problem and that should be abundantly evident to people whose job it is to report on traffic conditions. I'd have much higher regard for their reports if I heard that "the Gardiner is slow because of the collection of bad drivers on it" rather than "the Gardiner is slow because of the rain/sunshine/snow" that we usually get, like we don't have 365 days of precisely that for people to have figured out how to drive in it by now.

[thebro]

why wud these boneheads cancel driving tests when it shud be absolutley impairitive that these new drivers shud be getting tested in just such conditions.these unions r getting as bad as the politicians on doing nothing that might be considered incorrect.no wonder my insurance rates are what they are.pure and simple BS