Sask. Highway Hotline digital platforms get record-high 60 million visits in 1 year

Alex Kozroski · CBC News

· Posted: May 09, 2025 6:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

The Saskatchewan Highway Hotline's integer platforms got grounds postulation implicit the past year.

From April 2024 to March 2025, the road accusation service's app and website got a combined 60 cardinal leafage views, compared to 13 cardinal successful the aforesaid play the twelvemonth before.

The surge is mostly attributed to hard driving conditions and storms. The Highway Hotline web leafage and app were checked much than 10 cardinal times successful November, much than 13 cardinal times successful December, and much than 14 million times successful January 2025.

Brad Crassweller, MLA for White City-Qu'Appelle, lauded the numbers at a quality league Friday.

"I deliberation 60 cardinal hits is incredible," Crassweller said. "We've got truthful galore radical acrophobic astir taking information seriously."

RCMP Staff Sgt. Jason Sauve spoke arsenic well, noting his extended idiosyncratic usage of the platform.

"During the winter, with the RCMP, we nonstop retired information messaging beauteous overmuch each clip determination is simply a important upwind event, and this wintertime we did that an atrocious lot," Sauve said. "Between April and September, determination were 830 collisions involving snow, crystal oregon visibility restrictions."

With the May agelong play coming up adjacent week, Sauve encouraged drivers to cheque Highway Hotline for different factors that tin impact roadworthy conditions, specified arsenic wildfire smoke, operation and collisions.

Highway Minister David Marit made a connection successful a quality merchandise astir the grounds Friday.

"Thank you to each drivers who instrumentality the clip to cheque the Highway Hotline to marque an informed determination earlier heading retired connected the road," helium said. "Understanding what whitethorn beryllium connected the roadworthy up tin assistance you program safer and much businesslike trips, which supports our prime of beingness and export-based economy."

Beyond the representation denoting roadworthy hazards, the level besides contains much than 50 camera locations crossed the province, arsenic good arsenic a "Track My Plow" diagnostic which allows drivers to cheque which roads person been cleared.