Province to temporarily change G driving test to help tackle backlog, government says
Posted January 11, 2022 8:47 pm.
The Ontario government is temporarily modifying the G-level driving road test to help reduce a backlog caused by COVID-19 restrictions and closures.
A spokeswoman for Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney says the province will remove some elements from the G test that are also assessed in the lower-level G2 test, such as parallel parking, three-point turns and roadside stops.
Dakota Brasier also says in a statement that routes to and from testing locations will be modified so they are more direct. She says the changes will make the test shorter, which will allow more tests to be booked and completed.
“As we temporarily pause these duplicative, discretionary components of the G test, we will continue to enforce the fundamentals of the G test while using modified, more direct routes to and from road test locations, which will enable a 30 per cent increase in appointments to be booked each day,” Brasier said in an email to CityNews.
The modified G road test will be in place until at least March 31 but the G2 test will remain the same.
“This action is in addition to the comprehensive plan already in place to open additional temporary road test centres, hire 251 temporary driver examiners, and offer road tests with extended weekday operating hours for passenger road testing, including weekends,” Brasier adds.
“Ontario also extended summer hours at six DriveTest centres to ensure people in these areas who need a road test can get one sooner.”
The Ministry of Transportation has said hundreds of thousands of driving tests have been cancelled due to the pandemic since March 2020.
