EASIEST G2 ROAD TEST ONTARIO DRIVERS
Ontario drivers are required to take G1 and G2 road tests, which have been conducted since 2003 by a subsidiary of a British company. In an email, the ministry of transportation did not agree the variation in failure rates makes the province's streets more dangerous, saying Ontario has some of the highest testing standards in the world.ĭrivers still have to go through all the manoeuvres and all the requirements, whether they happen to be in one part of the province or another, Transportation Minister Jim Bradley said in an interview. Even jumping onto the 400 heading south on your way home from the test in Aurora – that's not a parallel thing. They're immediately eligible for the 401. Now they come back to Toronto after being tested in Aurora. They go up to Aurora, because they hear there are a couple easy examiners, or just the test or the route itself is easy," said Tom Blyth, a former examiner and now owner of driving school E圎. Just like everybody else, just like you and me, they want to pass their test.
Since Ontario residents can take their road tests anywhere they choose, drivers can shop around for a location at which they are most likely to pass – even if driving conditions near that location are less challenging than the conditions in which they will regularly drive. But variations in difficulty at test locations create a potentially dangerous loophole in the province's road safety regime, said driving instructors and Brian Patterson, president of the Ontario Safety League. 18 the Liberal provincial government said it would toughen rules for young drivers. They were substantially lower in Oshawa (32 per cent), Burlington (27 per cent) and several non-GTA locations within easy driving distance of Toronto, such as Orillia (23 per cent) and Barrie (22 per cent). Failure rates were highest in Brampton (48 per cent), at a since-moved location in Scarborough (47 per cent), and in Oakville (45 per cent). The rumours that have circulated for years among the province's driver's ed students are correct: there is indeed such a thing as a relatively easy or relatively difficult place to take a road test, government figures obtained via a freedom of information request confirm.īetween 2006 and the first three weeks of 2008, seven DriveTest locations in the GTA were among the 10 in the province that passed the lowest percentage of drivers.
Even within the GTA, drivers who test at some locations fail significantly more often than drivers at others. Drivers who test in north Toronto fail at twice the rate of drivers in Sarnia.
Marie.ĭrivers who test in Oakville fail at twice the rate of drivers in Kingston. Ontario drivers who take their road tests in Brampton fail at nearly five times the rate of drivers in Sault Ste.