With a warmer start to winter and low levels of precipitation, road crews in northern Ontario have been working vigorously to get the routes to remote First Nations ready, even having to make their own snow. Here are the challenges faced by communities and their ideas on how to make roads more sustainable.
Each winter, tractor-trailers make their way into remote, fly-in First Nations via crossings over frozen lakes and streams, delivering fuel, building supplies and other large loads that are hard and costly to transport by air. Warm weather in recent years has led to shorter seasons and slushy conditions, but nature has provided a reprieve this year, according to officials.